On 4/21/25 09:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
A lot of complexity in brd stems from the fact that it tries to handle I/O spanning two backing pages. Instead limit the size of a single bvec iteration so that it never crosses a page boundary and remove all the now unneeded code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- drivers/block/brd.c | 116 +++++++++++++------------------------------- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
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