linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 0/8] Block cleanups

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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:43:43 +1000
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>,
	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@...hat.com, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/8] Block cleanups

On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:48:05 -0700 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hello, guys.
> 
> (cc'ing Jens, Alasdair and Neil)
> 
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Screwed up the bio_reset() patch in the last patch series when I went to edit
> > the description, fixed that here.
> > 
> > Only other change is the dm patch - made the front_pad conditional on
> > DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED.
> > 
> > Kent Overstreet (8):
> >   block: Generalized bio pool freeing
> >   block: Ues bi_pool for bio_integrity_alloc()
> >   dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info
> >   block: Add bio_reset()
> >   pktcdvd: Switch to bio_kmalloc()
> >   block: Kill bi_destructor
> >   block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()
> >   block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
> 
> This series looks good to me now.  If someone can ack the dm patch, I
> think it's good to go.  Jens, what do you think?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I'm very happy with them from the perspective of 'md'.  Great work!

 Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

for the few patches which touch drivers/md/md.c


NeilBrown

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