Re: [PATCH] loop: use BIO list management functions

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:32:17PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Impact: cleanup

I though we had pretty broad agreement that these lines are utter crap?
:)

>  static void loop_add_bio(struct loop_device *lo, struct bio *bio)
>  {
> -	if (lo->lo_biotail) {
> -		lo->lo_biotail->bi_next = bio;
> -		lo->lo_biotail = bio;
> -	} else
> -		lo->lo_bio = lo->lo_biotail = bio;
> +	bio_list_add(&lo->lo_bio_list, bio);
>  }

This function only has one caller, no need to keep it.

>  static struct bio *loop_get_bio(struct loop_device *lo)
>  {
> -	struct bio *bio;
> -
> -	if ((bio = lo->lo_bio)) {
> -		if (bio == lo->lo_biotail)
> -			lo->lo_biotail = NULL;
> -		lo->lo_bio = bio->bi_next;
> -		bio->bi_next = NULL;
> -	}
> -
> -	return bio;
> +	return bio_list_pop(&lo->lo_bio_list);
>  }

Same here.

> --- a/include/linux/bio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bio.h
> @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static inline int bio_has_data(struct bio *bio)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * BIO list managment for use by remapping drivers (e.g. DM or MD).
> + * BIO list management for use by remapping drivers (e.g. DM or MD) and loop.
>   *


I don't think this needs changing, that was just examples.