On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 06:40:32PM +0100, Benjamin Block wrote: > Is blk_queue_bounce() called again when mpath submits the request to the > lower device? I thought when I looked at this code some time ago > bouncing would only be checked the first time a request is created > (dm-mpath), and then not again, so when we don't check for whether > bouncing is necessary in mpath, we still might screw the LLD - hence why > we might inherit this via the limits. Every call to blk_mq_submit_bio also calls blk_queue_bounce, and blk_queue_bounce then checks if it needs to do anything based on the bounce limit and max_pfn, and if needed proceeds to check every bvec. So for extremely unlikely case thay someone is running multipath over one of the few remaining drivers that need block layering bounce buffering this inheritance just leads to (harmless) extra work.
