From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:53:01 -0400 (EDT) > There is no need to turn BIO merge off --- the problem is caused by > accounting of BIO merging in block layer, not by BIO merging itself. > > Just do #define BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY 0, and that disables the accounting, > but leaves merging as it is. For the thousanth time, the BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY code is useful and worked perfectly fine before segment boundary handling was added to the block layer. It's a regression, and as such should be fixed or the guilty code reverted. Since when do we say "sorry that got broken, turn it off, thanks" ? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html