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Message-ID: <20120906234242.GA9426@google.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:42:42 -0700
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
dm-devel@...hat.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 6/8] block: Kill bi_destructor
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:35:00PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
> pools, this isn't needed anymore.
>
> This patch also makes bio_free() static, since without bi_destructor
> there should be no need for it to be called anywhere else.
>
> bio_free() is now only called from bio_put, so we can refactor those a
> bit - move some code from bio_put() to bio_free() and kill the redundant
> bio->bi_next = NULL.
>
> v5: Switch to BIO_KMALLOC_POOL ((void *)~0), per Boaz
> v6: BIO_KMALLOC_POOL now NULL, drop bio_free's EXPORT_SYMBOL
> v7: No #define BIO_KMALLOC_POOL anymore
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Thanks.
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tejun
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