On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:34:09PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kent Overstreet
> wrote:
> > But if it's a pointer to heap allocated memory, but the bio was embedded
> > in another struct? I've seen a fair number of instances of that (md, off
> > the top
Hello,
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> But if it's a pointer to heap allocated memory, but the bio was embedded
> in another struct? I've seen a fair number of instances of that (md, off
> the top of my head).
>
> If you're sure that in a normal config the slab allocator
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:05:17PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:21:54PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > What's wrong with good ol' NULL?
> >
> > If it's NULL, we can't distinguish between bios where that field wasn't
> > set (i.e. bios that were statically a
Hello,
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:21:54PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > What's wrong with good ol' NULL?
>
> If it's NULL, we can't distinguish between bios where that field wasn't
> set (i.e. bios that were statically allocated somewhere) from bios that
> were allocated by bio_kmalloc().
>
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:22:23PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 03:08:34PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
> > pools, this isn't needed anymore.
> >
> > This also changes the semantics of bio_fre
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:19:21PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06 2012 at 6:08pm -0400,
> Kent Overstreet wrote:
>
> > Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
> > pools, this isn't needed anymore.
> >
> > This also changes the semantics of bio_free() a b
Hello,
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 03:08:34PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
> pools, this isn't needed anymore.
>
> This also changes the semantics of bio_free() a bit - it now also frees
> bios allocated by bio_kmalloc(). It's als
On Mon, Aug 06 2012 at 6:08pm -0400,
Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
> pools, this isn't needed anymore.
>
> This also changes the semantics of bio_free() a bit - it now also frees
> bios allocated by bio_kmalloc(). It's also no longe
Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
pools, this isn't needed anymore.
This also changes the semantics of bio_free() a bit - it now also frees
bios allocated by bio_kmalloc(). It's also no longer exported, as
without bi_destructor there should be no need for it to be
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