[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 1/7] pmem: Add functions for reading/writing page to/from pmem

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Mon Feb 17 18:04:56 UTC 2020


On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 05:21:38AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:26:46PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > +static blk_status_t pmem_do_bvec(struct pmem_device *pmem, struct page *page,
> > +			unsigned int len, unsigned int off, unsigned int op,
> > +			sector_t sector)
> > +{
> > +	if (!op_is_write(op))
> > +		return pmem_do_read(pmem, page, off, sector, len);
> > +
> > +	return pmem_do_write(pmem, page, off, sector, len);
> 
> Why not:
> 
> 	if (op_is_write(op))
> 		return pmem_do_write(pmem, page, off, sector, len);
> 	return pmem_do_read(pmem, page, off, sector, len);
> 
> that being said I don't see the point of this pmem_do_bvec helper given
> that it only has two callers.

Ok, I am about to post V4 of patches and I got rid of pmem_do_bvec() and
callers are directly calling pmem_do_read()/pmem_do_write().

Vivek




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