linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: remove loop around bio

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:44:59 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: remove loop around bio_alloc()

These days, bio_alloc() is guaranteed to never fail (as long as nvecs
is less than BIO_MAX_PAGES), so we don't need the loop around the
struct bio allocation.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
---
 fs/ext4/page-io.c |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 7bb8f76..430c401 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -285,11 +285,7 @@ static int io_submit_init(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
 	io_end = ext4_init_io_end(inode, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!io_end)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	do {
-		bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, nvecs);
-		nvecs >>= 1;
-	} while (bio == NULL);
-
+	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, min(nvecs, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
 	bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
 	bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
 	bio->bi_private = io->io_end = io_end;
-- 
1.7.4.1.22.gec8e1.dirty

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