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Ming Lin authored
If a read request fits entirely in a chunk, it will be passed directly to the underlying device (providing it hasn't failed of course). If it doesn't fit, the slightly less efficient path that uses the stripe_cache is used. Requests that get to the stripe cache are always completely split up as necessary. So with RAID5, ripping out the merge_bvec_fn doesn't cause it to stop work, but could cause it to take the less efficient path more often. All that is needed to manage this is for 'chunk_aligned_read' do some bio splitting, much like the RAID0 code does. Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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