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.
prev 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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