linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/13] blk: replace bioset_create_nobvec() with a flags arg to bioset

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Date:   Tue, 2 May 2017 01:06:17 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] blk: replace bioset_create_nobvec() with a flags
 arg to bioset_create()

> diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
> index d1b04b0e99cf..0975da6bebd9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bio.h
> @@ -373,8 +373,10 @@ static inline struct bio *bio_next_split(struct bio *bio, int sectors,
>  	return bio_split(bio, sectors, gfp, bs);
>  }
>  
> -extern struct bio_set *bioset_create(unsigned int, unsigned int);
> -extern struct bio_set *bioset_create_nobvec(unsigned int, unsigned int);
> +extern struct bio_set *bioset_create(unsigned int, unsigned int, int flags);
> +enum {
> +	BIOSET_NEED_BVECS = BIT(0),
> +};

I really hate the BIT macro as it obsfucates what's going on.

Why not just

	BIOSET_NEED_BVECS	= (1 << 0),

which is a lot more intuitive.

Otherwise looks fine to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>