Re: [PATCH] O_DIRECT with hardware blocksize alignment

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Jan 15 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> actually we could also forbid merging at the ll_rw_block layer if b_size
> is not equal, maybe that's the simpler solution to that problem after
> all, merging between kiovec I/O and buffered I/O probably doesn't
> matter.

Agreed, this is also what I suggested.

--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.18-pre3/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c	Tue Jan 15 14:06:13 2002
+++ drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c	Tue Jan 15 14:07:23 2002
@@ -694,10 +694,11 @@
 	switch (el_ret) {
 
 		case ELEVATOR_BACK_MERGE:
-			if (!q->back_merge_fn(q, req, bh, max_segments)) {
-				insert_here = &req->queue;
+			insert_here = &req->queue;
+			if (!q->back_merge_fn(q, req, bh, max_segments))
+				break;
+			if (req->current_nr_sectors != (bh->b_size >> 9))
 				break;
-			}
 			elevator->elevator_merge_cleanup_fn(q, req, count);
 			req->bhtail->b_reqnext = bh;
 			req->bhtail = bh;
@@ -708,10 +709,11 @@
 			goto out;
 
 		case ELEVATOR_FRONT_MERGE:
-			if (!q->front_merge_fn(q, req, bh, max_segments)) {
-				insert_here = req->queue.prev;
+			insert_here = req->queue.prev;
+			if (!q->front_merge_fn(q, req, bh, max_segments))
+				break;
+			if (req->current_nr_sectors != (bh->b_size >> 9))
 				break;
-			}
 			elevator->elevator_merge_cleanup_fn(q, req, count);
 			bh->b_reqnext = req->bh;
 			req->bh = bh;

-- 
Jens Axboe