Re: [PATCH 11/17] block: factor out helper for bio allocation from cache

Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-10T08:35:46Z

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:50:59PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> +struct bio *bio_alloc_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, unsigned short nr_vecs,
> + struct bio_set *bs)
> +{
> + if (!(kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE))
> + return bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_KERNEL, nr_vecs, bs);
> +
> + return bio_from_cache(nr_vecs, bs);
> +}
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bio_alloc_kiocb);

If we go down this route we might want to just kill the bio_alloc_kiocb
wrapper.