linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] md: fast clone bio in bio_clone

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:20:25 -0800
From:   Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] md: fast clone bio in bio_clone_mddev()

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 08:01:09AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:29:03PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Firstly bio_clone_mddev() is used in raid normal I/O and isn't
> > in resync I/O path.
> > 
> > Secondly all the direct access to bvec table in raid happens on
> > resync I/O except for write behind of raid1, in which we still
> > use bio_clone() for allocating new bvec table.
> > 
> > So this patch replaces bio_clone() with bio_clone_fast()
> > in bio_clone_mddev().
> > 
> > Also kill bio_clone_mddev() and call bio_clone_fast() directly, as
> > suggested by Christoph Hellwig.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> 
> Looks fine,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> 
> Btw, can you also tack on another patch to kill bio_alloc_mddev
> to be consistent?

I'll take care of this