Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:51:48 -0700
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        dm-devel@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, mpatocka@redhat.com,
        bharrosh@panasas.com, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/13] block: Add bio_reset()
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:34:26AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:04:00AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past,
> > but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways,
> > we should provide a generic method.
> > 
> > This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor - drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
> > was open coding it, by doing a bio_init() and resetting bi_destructor.
> > 
> > v5: Add a define BIO_RESET_BITS, to be very explicit about what parts of
> > bio->bi_flags are saved.
> > v6: Further commenting verbosity, per Tejun
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
> > CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> 
> Given some users are converted later.
> 
>  Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Noticed it was a bit fuzzy which fields get reset and which aren't and
had a off-line discussion with Kent.  The conclusion was that
bi_end_io and bi_private should be reset and bi_integrity should be
freed on bio_reset().

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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