Re: DISABLE_CLUSTERING in scsi drivers

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 09:09:49AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 21/11/2018 10:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > you in the To list maintain or wrote SCSI drivers that set the
> > DISABLE_CLUSTERING flag, which basically disable merges of any
> > bio segments.  We already have the actual max_segment size limit
> > to say which length a segment should have, independent of merged
> > or originally created, so this limit generally should rarely if
> > ever be required, and mostly is an old cut an paste error.
> > 
> > Can you go over your drivers and check if it could be removed?
> > 
> 
> xen-scsifront.c doesn't need it. Do you want me to remove it at once
> or are you doing it when removing the support for it?

If it is a plain removal please queue it up yourself.  Eventually I
plan to do a bulk replacement, but that will take a while.



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