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.
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tejun