Hello,

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:07:11PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:

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+void bio_reset(struct bio *bio)
+{
+	unsigned long flags = bio->bi_flags & (~0UL << BIO_RESET_BITS);

How many flags are we talking about?  If there aren't too many, I'd
prefer explicit BIO_FLAGS_PRESERVED or whatever.

It mostly isn't actual flags that are preserved - the high bits of the
flags are used for indicating what slab the bvec was allocated from, and
that's the main thing that has to be preserved.

So that's why I went with defining the things that are reset instead of
the things that are preserved.

I would prefer if bitfields were used for at least BIO_POOL_IDX, but the
problem is flags is used as an atomic bit vector for BIO_UPTODATE.

But flags isn't treated as an atomic bit vector elsewhere -
bio_flagged() doesn't use test_bit(), and flags are set/cleared with

Not using test_bit() may not be necessarily wrong.

atomic bit operations in some places but not in others (probably _most_
of them are technically safe, but... ick).

Mixing atomic and non-atomic modifications is almost always wrong tho.

Anyways, understood.  Can you *please* put some comment what bits are
being preserved across reset then?  Things like this aren't obvious at
all and need ample explanation.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun