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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, dm-devel@redhat.com, James.Bottomley@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: defer the use of inline biovecs for discard requests
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:00:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100627140045.GC3970@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100627093955.GD12016@lst.de>

On Sun, Jun 27 2010 at  5:39am -0400,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:56:51PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > Don't alloc discard bio with a biovec in blkdev_issue_discard.  Doing so
> > means bio_has_data() will not be true until the SCSI layer adds the
> > payload to the discard request via blk_add_request_payload.
> > 
> > bio_{enable,disable}_inline_vecs are not expected to be widely used so
> > they were exported using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
> 
> Why do we need them exported at all?

Hmm, good point!

> Also some comments on these functions would be useful.

OK.

> Otherwise it looks good to me.

Thanks, I'll get a v2 of this patch out. 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-27 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-18 14:59 [PATCH, RFC] block: don't allocate a payload for discard request Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-19  4:25 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-22 18:00   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-26 19:56     ` [PATCH 1/2] block: fix leaks associated with discard request payload Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27  8:49       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27  9:26         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 10:01           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 10:35             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 11:07               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 12:32                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 14:16                   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27 15:35                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 16:23                       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27 15:33                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28  7:57                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28  8:14                     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28  8:18                       ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28  8:45                         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28 15:25                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 11:55                         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-01  4:21                           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-27  9:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 15:29       ` James Bottomley
2010-06-28 17:16         ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-06-29  8:00           ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-29 22:28         ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2010-06-29 23:03           ` James Bottomley
2010-06-29 23:51             ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-30  0:11             ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2010-06-30 14:22               ` James Bottomley
2010-06-30 15:36                 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-30 16:26                   ` James Bottomley
2010-07-01 12:28                 ` [dm-devel] " Mikulas Patocka
2010-07-01 12:46                   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-07-01 14:03                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2010-07-01 12:49                   ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2010-06-30  8:32         ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-30  8:42           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 10:25             ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-30 10:41               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 10:57                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-30 12:18                   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-26 19:56     ` [PATCH 2/2] block: defer the use of inline biovecs for discard requests Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27  9:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27 14:00         ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2010-06-27 14:55       ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Mike Snitzer
2010-06-27 15:33         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 10:33       ` [PATCH 2/2] " FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28 12:29         ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-28 15:15           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-28 15:31             ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-28 12:34       ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 12:37         ` Mike Snitzer
2010-06-28 12:41           ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 12:44             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 12:49               ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-28 12:45             ` Mike Snitzer

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