[dm-devel] [GIT PULL] block changes to improve device mapper for 4.16

[Jens Axboe]

On 1/15/18 8:52 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15 2018 at 10:33am -0500,
> Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/14/18 7:59 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> ...
>>> Ming Lei (3):
>>>       blk-mq: move actual issue into __blk_mq_issue_req helper
>>
>> I don't like this patch at all - it's a 10 line function (if that)
>> that ends up with three outputs, two of them hidden in passed
>> in pointers. On top of that, a function that is named
>> __blk_mq_issue_req() and returns bool, you would logically expect
>> a 'true' return to mean that it succeeded. This is the opposite.
>>
>> Not strongly opposed to the rest.
> 
> OK, I'll have a closer look at how to clean it up (and also get with
> Ming).
> 
> In the meantime, you can either cherry-pick my first 4 patches or feel
> free to use this to pull them in:

I took 1-3 initially, added 4 now as well.

-- 
Jens Axboe