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block: do not artificially constrain max_sectors for stacking drivers 

blk_set_stacking_limits is intended to allow stacking drivers to build
up the limits of the stacked device based on the underlying devices'
limits.  But defaulting 'max_sectors' to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS (1024)
doesn't allow the stacking driver to inherit a max_sectors larger than
1024 -- due to blk_stack_limits' use of min_not_zero.

It is now clear that this artificial limit is getting in the way so
change blk_set_stacking_limits's max_sectors to UINT_MAX (which allows
stacking drivers like dm-multipath to inherit 'max_sectors' from the
underlying paths).

Reported-by: Vijay Chauhan <vijay.chauhan@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Vijay Chauhan <vijay.chauhan@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Mike Snitzer 2012-08-01 10:44:28 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent a051661ca6
commit fe86cdcef7
1 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -143,8 +143,7 @@ void blk_set_stacking_limits(struct queue_limits *lim)
lim->discard_zeroes_data = 1;
lim->max_segments = USHRT_MAX;
lim->max_hw_sectors = UINT_MAX;
lim->max_sectors = BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS;
lim->max_sectors = UINT_MAX;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_set_stacking_limits);