Re: [PATCH 02/21] block: Add bio_add_folio()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Nov 02 2021 - 10:16:45 EST


On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 02:51:37PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 11/1/21 2:39 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > This is a thin wrapper around bio_add_page(). The main advantage here
> > is the documentation that stupidly large folios are not supported.
> > It's not currently possible to allocate stupidly large folios, but if
> > it ever becomes possible, this function will fail gracefully instead of
> > doing I/O to the wrong bytes.
>
> Might be better with UINT_MAX instead of stupidly here, because then
> it immediately makes sense. Can you make a change to that effect?

I'll make it "that folios larger than 2GiB are not supported. It's not
currently possible to allocate folios that large,"

> With that:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>
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> Jens Axboe
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