[dm-devel] [RFC] kill bio_clone_kmalloc and bio_clone_bioset

Ming Lei ming.lei at redhat.com
Wed Jun 20 09:12:06 UTC 2018


On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 06:52:10AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series removes all but one users of the traditional deep bio clone,
> and then moves bio_clone_bioset to its only caller so that we get rid
> of the deep bio cloning in the block layer API.
> 
> Patch 1 is already in the device mapper queue for 4.18, so we should
> wait for that to go in before the series is applied.  The series is
> inteded as preparation work for the multi-page biovecs so that it doesn't
> have to deal with the difference between single page or larger bio vecs
> for cloning.

Looks good cleanup:

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>

Thanks,
Ming




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