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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] block: make bio_inc_remaining() interface accessible again
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 17:30:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160506163015.GA19578@rh-vpn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160506161915.GA905@redhat.com>

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 12:19:16PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> As you know not all code is simple.  I've looked at this for quite a bit
> this week and unfortunately I don't see a way forward (yet) that doesn't
> require the use of bio_inc_remaining() to take extra bi_remaining
> references.

Well there is a way around it;  we just maintain our own reference
counter and use that to determine when to complete the original bio.

It just seems a shame when there's a ref count in the bio already.
But if Jens and Christophe are adamant that bio_chain is going to be
the one and only way to access that ref count then I'll allocate
another object to hold the ref count.

- Joe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-06 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-05 15:54 [PATCH 0/5] dm thin: adapt code to use new async __blkdev_issue_discard Mike Snitzer
2016-05-05 15:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] block: reinstate early return of -EOPNOTSUPP from blkdev_issue_discard Mike Snitzer
2016-05-06 16:04   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] block: make bio_inc_remaining() interface accessible again Mike Snitzer
2016-05-06 15:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-06 15:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-06 16:19       ` Mike Snitzer
2016-05-06 16:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-06 16:46           ` Joe Thornber
2016-05-06 16:30         ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2016-05-06 16:43         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-06 15:57     ` Mike Snitzer
2016-05-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] dm thin: remove __bio_inc_remaining() and switch to using bio_inc_remaining() Mike Snitzer
2016-05-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] dm thin: use __blkdev_issue_discard for async discard support Mike Snitzer
2016-05-06 16:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-05 15:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] dm thin: unroll issue_discard() to create longer discard bio chains Mike Snitzer
2016-05-06 16:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-06 16:36     ` Joe Thornber
2016-05-06 16:44       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-06 16:48         ` Joe Thornber

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