From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
axboe@kernel.dk, agk@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] block: Add bio_reset()
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 14:48:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120518214801.GA32300@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120518161608.GF19388@google.com>
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:16:08AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:59:53PM -0400, koverstreet@google.com wrote:
> > From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
> >
> > Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past,
> > but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways,
> > we should provide a generic method.
> >
> > This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor.
>
> It would be nice to explain a bit why this helps bi_destructor
> removal.
drivers/block/pktcdvd.c was open coding this - it was doing a bio_init()
and then resetting bi_destructor (and other stuff). The generic
bio_reset() means it doesn't have to know about bi_destructor anymore.
>
> > +#define BIO_RESET_OFFSET offsetof(struct bio, bi_max_vecs)
>
> Maybe better named BIO_RESET_BYTES? As offset tends to indicate the
> start of a region.
Yeah, that's a better name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-18 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-18 2:59 [PATCH 00/13] Block cleanups (for bcache) koverstreet
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 01/13] block: Generalized bio pool freeing koverstreet
2012-05-18 15:55 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 16:14 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 02/13] dm: kill dm_rq_bio_destructor koverstreet
2012-05-18 15:57 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 16:43 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2012-05-18 18:50 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-22 4:29 ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 03/13] block: Add bio_clone_bioset() koverstreet
2012-05-18 16:05 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 20:31 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 16:11 ` [dm-devel] " Vivek Goyal
2012-05-18 18:55 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 04/13] block: Add bio_clone_kmalloc() koverstreet
2012-05-18 16:09 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 20:39 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 16:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 05/13] block: Only clone bio vecs that are in use koverstreet
2012-05-18 16:13 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 21:14 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 06/13] block: Add bio_reset() koverstreet
2012-05-18 16:16 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 21:48 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 07/13] pktcdvd: Switch to bio_kmalloc() koverstreet
2012-05-18 16:18 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 08/13] block: Kill bi_destructor koverstreet
2012-05-18 16:21 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 22:21 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 09/13] block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec koverstreet
2012-05-18 16:30 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 21:49 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-18 17:07 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 10/13] block: Rework bio splitting koverstreet
2012-05-18 17:07 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 17:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 11/13] Closures koverstreet
2012-05-18 17:08 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-18 2:59 ` [PATCH 12/13] Make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily large bios koverstreet
2012-05-18 8:05 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-18 8:14 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-21 17:17 ` [dm-devel] " Vivek Goyal
2012-05-21 17:55 ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-21 18:32 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-18 17:52 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-19 0:59 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2012-05-18 22:48 ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-05-18 3:00 ` [PATCH 13/13] Gut bio_add_page() koverstreet
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