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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Kai" <epimetreus@fastmail.fm>,
	stable@suse.de, org@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Bio device too big | kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:537!
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:15:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206171509.f92e0ed2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17865.3776.511594.763544@notabene.brown>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:26:56 +1100
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> +static int bio_fits_rdev(struct bio *bi)
> +{
> +	request_queue_t *q = bdev_get_queue(bi->bi_bdev);
> +
> +	if ((bi->bi_size>>9) > q->max_sectors)
> +		return 0;
> +	blk_recount_segments(q, bi);
> +	if (bi->bi_phys_segments > q->max_phys_segments ||
> +	    bi->bi_hw_segments > q->max_hw_segments)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (q->merge_bvec_fn)
> +		/* it's too hard to apply the merge_bvec_fn at this stage,
> +		 * just just give up
> +		 */
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	return 1;
> +}

Isn't think going to return 0 rather a lot of the time?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-07  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  4:08 Kai
2007-02-06  4:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-06  5:24   ` Neil Brown
2007-02-06 23:26     ` [PATCH] " Neil Brown
2007-02-07  1:15       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-02-07  1:30         ` Neil Brown
2007-02-07  1:40           ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-07 16:26       ` Kai
2007-02-07 22:08         ` Neil Brown
2007-02-09 17:15           ` Kai
2007-02-12  8:51       ` J.A. Magallón

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