Re: [PATCH 02/15] scsi/osd: don't save block errors into req_results

2017-05-25 Thread h...@lst.de
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:04:40PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Are you sure that that code is not necessary? From osd_initiator.c:
> 
> static void _put_request(struct request *rq)
> {
>   /*
>* If osd_finalize_request() was called but the request was not
>* executed through the block layer, then we must release BIOs.
>* TODO: Keep error code in or->async_error. Need to audit all
>*   code paths.
>*/
>   if (unlikely(rq->bio))
>   blk_end_request(rq, -ENOMEM, blk_rq_bytes(rq));
>   else
>   blk_put_request(rq);
> }

Which isn't using it at all.  It has a ten year old comment to pass
on some error, but even then ORing two different error types together
would no be very helpful.

> 
> Bart.---end quoted text---
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Re: [PATCH 12/15] block: merge blk_types.h into bio.h

2017-05-19 Thread h...@lst.de
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 02:25:52PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 15:18 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > We've cleaned up our headers sufficiently that we don't need this split
> > anymore.
> 
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> Request-based drivers need the structure definitions from  and
> the type definitions from  but do not need the definition 
> of
> struct bio. Have you considered to remove #include  from file
> include/linux/blkdev.h? Do you think that would help to reduce the kernel 
> build
> time?

Most block drivers end up needing bio.h anyway.  But I can skip this
part of the series for now.
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