On Tue, Apr 05 2016 at  9:04am -0400,
Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:07:35PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:

quoted

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index cd77216..0e48ad7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c

@@ -624,8 +624,7 @@ static void use_inline_bio(struct dm_buffer *b, int rw, sector_t block,
 	int len;
 
 	bio_init(&b->bio);
-	b->bio.bi_io_vec = b->bio_vec;
-	b->bio.bi_max_vecs = DM_BUFIO_INLINE_VECS;
+	bio_set_vec_table(&b->bio, b->bio_vec, DM_BUFIO_INLINE_VECS);
 	b->bio.bi_iter.bi_sector = block << b->c->sectors_per_block_bits;
 	b->bio.bi_bdev = b->c->bdev;
 	b->bio.bi_end_io = inline_endio;

Should be switched to use bio_alloc instead.

Why does the use of bio_init() vs bio_alloc() bother you?

'struct dm_buffer' has a 'struct bio'.  That bio is allocated as part of
the dm_buffer in drivers/md/dmbufio.c:alloc_buffer() -- which is called
by various other bufio interfaces (e.g. __alloc_buffer_wait).  Bufio is
in control of ensuring forward progress by carefully managing the memory
associated with these buffers.  I don't see the benefit of bio_alloc()
here.  What am I missing?