Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v3 02/26] block: Convert integrity tobvec_alloc_bs()

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Tue Oct 02 2012 - 11:37:46 EST


On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 03:34:42PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:

[..]
> /**
> * bio_integrity_alloc - Allocate integrity payload and attach it to bio
> * @bio: bio to attach integrity metadata to
> @@ -84,37 +47,39 @@ struct bio_integrity_payload *bio_integrity_alloc(struct bio *bio,
> unsigned int nr_vecs)
> {
> struct bio_integrity_payload *bip;
> - unsigned int idx = vecs_to_idx(nr_vecs);
> struct bio_set *bs = bio->bi_pool;
> + unsigned long idx = BIO_POOL_NONE;
> + unsigned inline_vecs;
> +
> + if (!bs) {
> + bip = kmalloc(sizeof(struct bio_integrity_payload) +
> + sizeof(struct bio_vec) * nr_vecs, gfp_mask);
> + inline_vecs = nr_vecs;
> + } else {
> + bip = mempool_alloc(bs->bio_integrity_pool, gfp_mask);
> + inline_vecs = BIP_INLINE_VECS;
> + }
>
> - if (!bs)
> - bs = fs_bio_set;

Ok, this is change of behavior. Previously we will fall back to fs_bio_set
and now you do kmalloc. This change looks to be independent of bip_vec
pointer. Can you please break it out in a separate patch and also explain
that how does this change help.

Thanks
Vivek
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