Re: [PATCH 0/9] Prep work for immutable bio vecs
From: Tejun Heo <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-08 19:41:24
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From: Tejun Heo <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-08 19:41:24
Also in:
dm-devel, lkml
Hello, Kent. On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 03:59:11PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
Random assortment of refactoring and trivial cleanups. Immutable bio vecs and efficient bio splitting require auditing and removing pretty much all bi_idx uses, among other things. The reason is that with immutable bio vecs we can't use the bvec array directly; if we have a partially completed bvec, that'll be indicated with a field in struct bvec_iter (which gets embedded in struct bio) - bi_bvec_done. bio_for_each_segments() will handle this transparently, so code needs to be converted to use it or some other generic accessor. Also, bio splitting means that when a driver gets a bio, bi_idx and bi_bvec_done may both be nonzero. Again, just need to use generic accessors.
There are three pending patchsets and I don't know how they're supposed to come together. Please explain on which tree the patches are based and how they stack and preferably provide a git branch. Thanks. -- tejun