> But this gets you lowest common denominator sizes for the whole
> volume, which is basically the buffer head approach, chop all I/O up
> into a chunk size we know will always work. Any sort of nasty boundary
> condition at one spot in a volume means the whole thing is crippled
> down to that level. It then becomes a black magic art to configure a
> volume which is not restricted to a small request size.
Its still cheaper to merge bio chains than split them. The VM issues with
splitting them are not nice at all since you may need to split a bio to
write out a page and it may be the last page
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