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[29/60] dm: limit the max bio size as BIO_SP_MAX_SECTORS << SECTOR_SHIFT

Message ID 1477728600-12938-30-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Ming Lei Oct. 29, 2016, 8:08 a.m. UTC
For BIO based DM, some targets aren't ready for dealing with
bigger incoming bio than 1Mbyte, such as crypt and log write
targets.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index ef7bf1dd6900..ce454c6c1a4e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -899,7 +899,16 @@  int dm_set_target_max_io_len(struct dm_target *ti, sector_t len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	ti->max_io_len = (uint32_t) len;
+	/*
+	 * BIO based queue uses its own splitting. When multipage bvecs
+	 * is switched on, size of the incoming bio may be too big to
+	 * be handled in some targets, such as crypt and log write.
+	 *
+	 * When these targets are ready for the big bio, we can remove
+	 * the limit.
+	 */
+	ti->max_io_len = min_t(uint32_t, len,
+			       BIO_SP_MAX_SECTORS << SECTOR_SHIFT);
 
 	return 0;
 }