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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Document the bio splitting functions
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 08:14:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <77f37e93-2b77-2540-7da8-322ff3c4ce4b@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <febb2570-5b5f-2283-c0af-784ef4d6475e@suse.de>

On 7/2/19 12:39 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Could you add a reference to the bio_set in those descriptions, too?
> It's really non-obvious that 'split' will reference the bio_set of the
> queue, and hence the queue _must not_ go away while the bio is allocated.
> This becomes especially tricky if the bio is remapped to another queue
> later on, as then we'll lose the reference to the original queue, and
> have no idea that suddenly we have a bio with references to _two_
> request queues.

Hi Hannes,

Thanks for having taken a look. I will update this patch as proposed and 
repost it.

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-03 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-01 16:23 [PATCH] block: Document the bio splitting functions Bart Van Assche
2019-07-02  7:39 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-07-03 15:14   ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2019-07-03  5:52 ` Minwoo Im

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