linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10] block: Convert bio_set to mempool

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Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 09:20:28 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] block: Convert bio_set to mempool_init()

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 09:33:50PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Minor performance improvement by getting rid of pointer indirections
> from allocation/freeing fastpaths.

Can you please also send a long conversion for the remaining
few bioset_create users?  It would be rather silly to keep two
almost the same interfaces around for just about two hand full
of users.