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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>,
	"Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, DMML <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dm-bufio: align write boundary on bdev_logical_block_size
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:45:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251119054524.GA19993@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <faafd90d-e41c-dcfc-cc25-7f29ff4f958c@redhat.com>

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 06:45:55PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> I changed the patch below, so that it aligns write bios on 
> max3(DM_BUFIO_WRITE_ALIGN, bdev_logical_block_size(b->c->bdev), 
> bdev_physical_block_size(b->c->bdev)); - so that if physical block size is 
> greater than logical block size, the writes are aligned so that the device 
> doesn't do read-modify-write.

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever.  The physical block size must
be >= logical block size, and the block enforces that.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-19  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-20 12:33 [PATCH v2] dm-ebs: Mark full buffer dirty even on partial write Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2025-10-20 12:48 ` [PATCH] dm-bufio: align write boundary on bdev_logical_block_size Mikulas Patocka
2025-10-28  8:47   ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-10-28 13:18     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-10-29 10:24       ` Mikulas Patocka
2025-10-29 13:06         ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-11-10 10:26           ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-11-18  4:00   ` Benjamin Marzinski
2025-11-18 11:15     ` Mikulas Patocka
2025-11-18 12:42       ` Uladzislau Rezki
2025-11-18 17:45     ` Mikulas Patocka
2025-11-18 20:36       ` Benjamin Marzinski
2025-11-19  5:45       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-11-19 17:13         ` Mikulas Patocka

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