Re: [PATCH v10 6/8] block: Kill bi_destructor

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Sep 06 2012 - 19:42:39 EST


On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:35:00PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Now that we've got generic code for freeing bios allocated from bio
> pools, this isn't needed anymore.
>
> This patch also makes bio_free() static, since without bi_destructor
> there should be no need for it to be called anywhere else.
>
> bio_free() is now only called from bio_put, so we can refactor those a
> bit - move some code from bio_put() to bio_free() and kill the redundant
> bio->bi_next = NULL.
>
> v5: Switch to BIO_KMALLOC_POOL ((void *)~0), per Boaz
> v6: BIO_KMALLOC_POOL now NULL, drop bio_free's EXPORT_SYMBOL
> v7: No #define BIO_KMALLOC_POOL anymore
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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