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

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Message-ID: <BANLkTikSROvSS9UdQbyyPkHQO1YDoP7yoQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:12:25 +0800
From:	Steven Liu <lingjiujianke@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: remove loop around bio_alloc()

Hi Ted,

2011/6/30 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>:
> 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));
Is this needn't to check if bio_alloc success?

>        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
>
> --
Asked-by: LiuQi <lingjiujianke@...il.com>
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