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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.2 04/14] block: factor out blkdev_issue_discard_async
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 01:32:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519083200.GA31648@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150518191830.GA15656@redhat.com>

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 03:18:30PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > And besides that generic high level sentiment I think the interface
> > for blkdev_issue_discard_async is simply wrong.  Either you want to keep
> > the internals private and just expose a completion callback that gets
> > your private data and an error, or you want to build your own bios as
> > suggested above.  But not one that is mostly opaque except for allowing
> > the caller to hook into the submission process and thus taking over I/O
> > completion.
> 
> I'll see what I can come up with.

Another option would be to help with reviewing and testing this
series: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1947453

If we can get thast one in the submitter doesn't have to care
about aligning or splitting discard (or any other) bios.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-14 21:04 [PATCH for-4.2 00/14] block, dm: first batch of changes for 4.2 Mike Snitzer
2015-05-14 21:04 ` [PATCH for-4.2 01/14] block: remove management of bi_remaining when restoring original bi_end_io Mike Snitzer
2015-05-18  7:22   ` Jan Kara
2015-05-18 13:13     ` Mike Snitzer
2015-05-18 15:36       ` Jan Kara
2015-05-18 15:59         ` Mike Snitzer
2015-05-18 20:40           ` [PATCH for-4.2 v2 " Mike Snitzer
2015-05-19  6:28             ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-19  7:20             ` Jan Kara
2015-05-18  8:24   ` [dm-devel] [PATCH for-4.2 " Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-18 13:20     ` Mike Snitzer
2015-05-14 21:05 ` [PATCH for-4.2 02/14] block: remove export for blk_queue_bio Mike Snitzer
2015-05-14 21:05 ` [PATCH for-4.2 03/14] block, dm: don't copy bios for request clones Mike Snitzer
2015-05-14 21:05 ` [PATCH for-4.2 04/14] block: factor out blkdev_issue_discard_async Mike Snitzer
2015-05-18  8:27   ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-18 13:32     ` Mike Snitzer
2015-05-18 16:17       ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-18 19:18         ` Mike Snitzer
2015-05-19  8:32           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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