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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	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: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:45:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100628124548.GC19497@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C28987A.7000701@kernel.dk>

On Mon, Jun 28 2010 at  8:41am -0400,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:

> On 2010-06-28 14:37, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 28 2010 at  8:34am -0400,
> > Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2010-06-26 21:56, 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.
> >>
> >> Sorry, this looks horrible.
> > 
> > Your judgment isn't giving me much to work with... not sure where I go
> > with "horrible".
> 
> The horrible part is working around that issue by fiddling with the
> assignment of the internal vec. THAT looks like a horrible solution
> to that problem.
>
> How about just adding a check to bio_has_data() for non-zero
> bio->bi_vcnt?

Sure, that works.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28 12:46 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
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 [this message]

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