Re: [PATCH 09/13] block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios thatown their bvec

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 12:30:28 EST


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:59:56PM -0400, koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is for the new bio splitting code. When we split a bio, if the
> split occured on a bvec boundry we reuse the bvec for the new bio. But
> that means bio_free() can't free it, hence the explicit flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/bio.c | 3 ++-
> include/linux/blk_types.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
> index ecc9088..3332800 100644
> --- a/fs/bio.c
> +++ b/fs/bio.c
> @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ void bio_free(struct bio *bio, struct bio_set *bs)
> {
> void *p;
>
> - if (bio_has_allocated_vec(bio))
> + if (bio_flagged(bio, BIO_HAS_VEC))
> bvec_free_bs(bs, bio->bi_io_vec, BIO_POOL_IDX(bio));

We can remove bio_has_allocated_vec()?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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