[dm-devel] [PATCH 01/13] block: Generalized bio pool freeing

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Fri May 18 15:55:38 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:59:48PM -0400, koverstreet at google.com wrote:
> From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet at google.com>
> 
> With the old code, when you allocate a bio from a bio pool you have to
> implement your own destructor that knows how to find the bio pool the
> bio was originally allocated from.
> 
> This adds a new field to struct bio (bi_pool) and changes
> bio_alloc_bioset() to use it. This makes various bio destructors
> unnecessary, so they're then deleted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet at google.com>

Please add Cc: to maintainers of each modified subsystem.  Other than
that, nice cleanup even without the later removal of bi_destructor.

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun




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