Re: store a pointer to the block_device in struct bio (again) v2

Jens Axboe
2021-01-25T16:25:24Z

On 1/24/21 3:02 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> this series switches back from storing the gendisk + partno to storing
> a block_device pointer in struct bio. The reason is two fold: for one
> the new struct block_device actually is always available, removing the
> need to avoid originally. Second the merge struct block_device is much
> more useful than the old one, as storing it avoids the need for looking
> up what used to be hd_struct during partition remapping and I/O
> accounting.

Applied for 5.12, thanks.

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Jens Axboe