Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v3 02/26] block: Convert integrity tobvec_alloc_bs()

[Vivek Goyal]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 01:52:50PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:12:02AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 03:34:42PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > This adds a pointer to the bvec array to struct bio_integrity_payload,
> > > instead of the bvecs always being inline; then the bvecs are allocated
> > > with bvec_alloc_bs().
> > 
> > Ok, you are introducing bio_vec pointer in this patch. May be we can
> > do it earlier so that we take care of bio pair related issue.
> 
> I was just trying to make the bugfix patch small, since people
> complained about too much stuff being done in one patch.

Can't we introduce the pointer while we retain bip_slabs as it is. Then
this patch will be small. I think this patch is big only because you
are trying to allocate integrity vecs from bio_set out of line.

Thanks
Vivek
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/