From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] Introductory patches for bio refactor.
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:37:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070816063725.GD23758@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070816150445.30843.patches@notabene>
On Thu, Aug 16 2007, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> Hi Jens,
> I wonder if you would accept these patches the block layer.
> They are, as far as I can tell, quite uncontroversial and provide
> good cleanups.
>
> The first is a minor bug-fix.
> The next to replace helper function that take a bio (always the first
> bio of a request), to instead take a request.
>
> The last two combine to replace rq_for_each_bio with
> rq_for_each_segment which makes blk_recalc_rq_segments a lot
> cleaner, and improves (to a lesser degree) every other place that
> used rq_for_each_bio.
>
> The net result is a decrease in object code size (for my x86-64 compile)
> for block/built-in.o of 96 bytes, though there is some growth out in
> drivers making and over-all decrease of only 48 bytes.
Thanks for seperating these out Neil, will go over them this morning!
--
Jens Axboe
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 5:13 [PATCH 000 of 5] Introductory patches for bio refactor NeilBrown
2007-08-16 5:13 ` [PATCH 001 of 5] Don't update bi_hw_*_size if we aren't going to merge NeilBrown
2007-08-16 7:01 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-16 5:13 ` [PATCH 002 of 5] Replace bio_data with blk_rq_data NeilBrown
2007-08-16 7:02 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-16 7:15 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-16 7:21 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-16 11:15 ` Neil Brown
2007-08-16 11:19 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-16 11:22 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-16 5:13 ` [PATCH 003 of 5] Replace bio_cur_sectors with blk_rq_cur_sectors NeilBrown
2007-08-16 5:13 ` [PATCH 004 of 5] Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing rq_for_each_bio NeilBrown
2007-08-16 5:13 ` [PATCH 005 of 5] Merge blk_recount_segments into blk_recalc_rq_segments NeilBrown
2007-08-16 6:37 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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