Re: [PATCH v5 06/12] block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios thatown their bvec

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Aug 08 2012 - 18:28:40 EST


On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 03:08:35PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> 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>

Sans how the flag is preserved,

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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