block: don't check for BIO_MAX_PAGES in blk_bio_segment_split()
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 04:38:59 +0000 (14:38 +1000)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:40:59 +0000 (12:40 -0600)
commit58c94cc19e0800e8c0d0d708e37eeb4dee564ba9
treeae10aeee564fbba0921a12fc3daee9b347756eb8
parent9b10f6a9c2aaab49c56b8cff0facdc1b64ed7e1c
block: don't check for BIO_MAX_PAGES in blk_bio_segment_split()

blk_bio_segment_split() makes sure bios have no more than
BIO_MAX_PAGES entries in the bi_io_vec.
This was done because bio_clone_bioset() (when given a
mempool bioset) could not handle larger io_vecs.

No driver uses bio_clone_bioset() any more, they all
use bio_clone_fast() if anything, and bio_clone_fast()
doesn't clone the bi_io_vec.

The main user of of bio_clone_bioset() at this level
is bounce.c, and bouncing now happens before blk_bio_segment_split(),
so that is not of concern.

So remove the big helpful comment and the code.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block/blk-merge.c