[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Prep work for immutable bio vecs

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Kent.

On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 03:59:11PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Random assortment of refactoring and trivial cleanups.
> 
> Immutable bio vecs and efficient bio splitting require auditing and removing
> pretty much all bi_idx uses, among other things.
> 
> The reason is that with immutable bio vecs we can't use the bvec array
> directly; if we have a partially completed bvec, that'll be indicated with a
> field in struct bvec_iter (which gets embedded in struct bio) - bi_bvec_done.
> 
> bio_for_each_segments() will handle this transparently, so code needs to be
> converted to use it or some other generic accessor.
> 
> Also, bio splitting means that when a driver gets a bio, bi_idx and
> bi_bvec_done may both be nonzero. Again, just need to use generic accessors.

There are three pending patchsets and I don't know how they're
supposed to come together.  Please explain on which tree the patches
are based and how they stack and preferably provide a git branch.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun