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* [PATCH] Block layer stuff/DIO rewrite prep for 3.14
@ 2013-11-04 23:36 Kent Overstreet
  2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 1/9] block: Convert various code to bio_for_each_segment() Kent Overstreet
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From: Kent Overstreet @ 2013-11-04 23:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, linux-btrfs; +Cc: axboe, hch

Now that immutable biovecs is in, these are the remaining patches required for
my DIO rewrite, along with some related cleanup/refactoring.

The key enabler is patch 4 - making generic_make_request() handle arbitary sized
bios. This takes what was once bio_add_page()'s responsibility and pushes it
down; long term plan is to hopefully push this down to the driver level, which
should simplify a lot of code (a lot of it very fragile code!) and improve
performance at the same time.

The DIO rewrite needs some more work before it'll be ready, but I wanted to get
this patch series out because this stuff should all be ready and it's useful for
other reasons - I think this stuff will make it a lot easier for the btrfs
people to do what they need with their DIO code.

Other stuff enabled by this:

 * With this and the bio_split() rewrite already in, we can just delete
   merge_bvec_fn. I have patches for this, but they'll need more testing.

 * Multipage bvecs - bvecs pointing to an arbitrary amount of contiguous
   physical memory. I have this working but it'll need more testing and code
   auditing - this is what lets us kill bi_seg_front_size and bi_seg_back_size
   though.

Patch series is based on Jens' for-next tree, and it's available in my git
repository - git://evilpiepirate.org/~kent/linux-bcache.git for-jens


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2013-11-04 23:36 [PATCH] Block layer stuff/DIO rewrite prep for 3.14 Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 1/9] block: Convert various code to bio_for_each_segment() Kent Overstreet
2013-11-05 13:53   ` Josef Bacik
2013-11-07 11:26   ` Jan Kara
2013-11-07 20:21     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 2/9] block: submit_bio_wait() conversions Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 3/9] block: Move bouncing to generic_make_request() Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 4/9] block: Make generic_make_request handle arbitrary sized bios Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:56   ` [dm-devel] " Mike Christie
2013-11-05  0:55     ` Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 5/9] block: Gut bio_add_page(), kill bio_add_pc_page() Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 6/9] mtip32xx: handle arbitrary size bios Kent Overstreet
2013-11-05 13:49   ` Josef Bacik
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 7/9] blk-lib.c: generic_make_request() handles large bios now Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 8/9] bcache: " Kent Overstreet
2013-11-04 23:36 ` [PATCH 9/9] block: Add bio_get_user_pages() Kent Overstreet

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