xfs: don't cap maximum dedupe request length

After various discussions on linux-fsdevel, it has been decided that it
is not necessary to cap the length of a dedupe request, and that
correctly-written userspace client programs will be able to absorb the
change.  Therefore, remove the length clamping behavior.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index 6e4f7f900fea..9a5d64b5f35a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -939,7 +939,6 @@ xfs_file_clone_range(
                                      len, false);
 }
 
-#define XFS_MAX_DEDUPE_LEN      (16 * 1024 * 1024)
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_dedupe_range(
         struct file     *src_file,
@@ -950,14 +949,6 @@ xfs_file_dedupe_range(
 {
         int             error;
 
-        /*
-         * Limit the total length we will dedupe for each operation.
-         * This is intended to bound the total time spent in this
-         * ioctl to something sane.
-         */
-        if (len > XFS_MAX_DEDUPE_LEN)
-                len = XFS_MAX_DEDUPE_LEN;
-
         error = xfs_reflink_remap_range(src_file, loff, dst_file, dst_loff,
                                      len, true);
         if (error)