linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/23] dm: Refactor for new bio cloning/splitting

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Message-ID: <20131029230430.GA2989@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:04:30 -0400
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
To:	Kent Overstreet <kmo@...erainc.com>
Cc:	axboe@...nel.dk, dm-devel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/23] dm: Refactor for new bio cloning/splitting

On Tue, Oct 29 2013 at  4:18pm -0400,
Kent Overstreet <kmo@...erainc.com> wrote:

> We need to convert the dm code to the new bvec_iter primitives which
> respect bi_bvec_done; they also allow us to drastically simplify dm's
> bio splitting code.
> 
> Also kill bio_sector_offset(), dm was the only user and it doesn't make
> much sense anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@...erainc.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
> Cc: dm-devel@...hat.com

I reviewed this patch some weeks ago (along with the rest of the DM
changes), I provided the dm-thin.c changes in this patch:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2013-October/msg00027.html

Please add:

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
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