We don't have a real use-case for this. Understanding the consequences,
we are questioning the patch in downstream itself.
Please ignore this patch for now.
On 12/12/18 1:36 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
scatterlist elements longer than 4GB sound odd. Please submit it
in a series with your actual user so that we can help figuring out
if it really makes sense or if there is a better way to solve your
problem.
As is this patch will massively increase the memory usage for all users
of struct scatterlist, so you better have a really good reason.
