[dm-devel] [PATCH v10 1/8] block: Generalized bio pool freeing

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Fri Sep 14 18:36:10 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:34:55PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> 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.
 
If you reinstate commit 4d7b38b7d944a79da3793b6c92d38682f3905ac9
"dm: clear bi_end_io on remapping failure",

Acked-by: Alasdair Kergon <agk at redhat.com>

for the device-mapper parts.

Alasdair




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