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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org>,
	<dm-devel@redhat.com>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<tj@kernel.org>, <axboe@kernel.dk>, <agk@redhat.com>,
	<neilb@suse.de>, <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>,
	<mpatocka@redhat.com>, <sage@newdream.net>,
	<yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/14] block: Kill bi_destructor
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 09:43:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBF29F7.6030808@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120524195202.GG27550@redhat.com>

On 05/24/2012 10:52 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:

> In fact I am not even sure that for one driver we should introduce
> bio_reset() in generic block layer. So to me we should get rid of bio_reset()
> and let all the gory details remain in driver.
> 


I disagree. The kind of trick we do where up to BIO_RESET_BYTES
the struct is memset **must** stay at header, very close to the
structure.

I would though make bio_reset() inline at header, it's a single
memset. Even the memset is inlined by the compiler.

> Thanks
> Vivek


Thanks
Boaz

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-25  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-24  0:02 [PATCH v2 00/14] Block cleanups (for bcache) Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] block: Generalized bio pool freeing Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 16:09   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-24 16:19     ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-24 17:46   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-24 18:06     ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] dm: kill dm_rq_bio_destructor Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:19   ` [dm-devel] " Jun'ichi Nomura
2012-05-24  0:39     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  1:16       ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2012-05-24  1:39         ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2012-05-24 23:33         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 16:11   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] block: Add bio_clone_bioset() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 16:38   ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-24 18:45   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-24 23:35     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] block: Add bio_clone_kmalloc() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 18:59   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-24 21:41     ` Yehuda Sadeh
2012-05-25  0:31     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] block: Only clone bio vecs that are in use Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] block: Add bio_reset() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] pktcdvd: Switch to bio_kmalloc() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 19:42   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-24 19:55     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] block: Kill bi_destructor Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 19:52   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-24 19:58     ` [dm-devel] " Vivek Goyal
2012-05-24 20:00     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-25  6:43     ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 16:57   ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-05-24 21:31     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-25 16:49       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-25 20:01         ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] block: Rename bio_split() -> bio_pair_split() Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] block: Rework bio splitting Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24 16:56   ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-05-24 21:27     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-25 18:48     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] Closures Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:47   ` Joe Perches
2012-05-24  1:16     ` Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  1:23       ` Joe Perches
2012-05-25 22:54   ` Andi Kleen
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] Make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily large bios Kent Overstreet
2012-05-24  0:02 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] Gut bio_add_page() Kent Overstreet

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