Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] block: Limit atomic write IO size according to atomic_write_max_sectors

[John Garry]

On 14/02/2024 07:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:15:08AM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> > I'm note sure if that would be better in the fops.c patch (or not added)
>
> We'll need the partition check.  If you want to get fancy you could
> also add the atomic boundary offset thing there as a partitions would
> make devices with that "feature" useful again, although I'd prefer to
> only deal with that if the need actually arises.

Yeah, that is my general philosophy about possible weird HW.

> The right place is in the core infrastructure, the bdev patch is just
> a user of the block infrastructure.  bdev really are just another
> file system and a consumer of the block layer APIs.

ok, I'll try to find a good place for it.

Thanks,
John