[dm-devel] [PATCH v6 05/13] block: Kill bi_destructor

Kent Overstreet koverstreet at google.com
Fri Aug 24 05:09:36 UTC 2012


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:00:32PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:04:02AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > +#define BIO_KMALLOC_POOL NULL
> 
> I would much prefer just doing
> 
> 	if (!bs) {
> 		/* do kmalloc/kfree thing */
> 	} else {
> 		/* do bioset thing */
> 	}
> 
> NULL @bs indicating no bioset is perfectly natural and so is using
> generic memory allocation in the absense of bioset.  I don't see any
> value in defining Bio_KMALLOC_POOL to be NULL.

Eh, kind of disagree but at this point I don't care that much, I'll
change it.




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