Re: [PATCH v3] bcache: avoid oversized read request in cache missing code path

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On 5/20/21 4:05 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This fix is pretty gross.  Adding pages to bios can fail for all kinds
> of reasons, so the fix is to use bio_add_page and check its return
> value, and if it needs another bio keep looping and chaining more bios.
> 

OK, I will try this idea and avoid to access BIO_MAX_VECS directly.

> And maybe capping the readahead to some sane upper bound still makes
> sense, but it should never look at BIO_MAX_VECS for that.
> 

Thanks for the hint.

Coly Li



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