Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759362Ab2HXMri (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:47:38 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:40843 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759080Ab2HXMre (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:47:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:46:59 -0700 From: Kent Overstreet To: Vivek Goyal Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org, mpatocka@redhat.com, bharrosh@panasas.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/13] Block cleanups Message-ID: <20120824124659.GA12977@moria.home.lan> References: <1345655050-28199-1-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <20120823180041.GK12232@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120823180041.GK12232@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1196 Lines: 28 On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:00:41PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:03:57AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > [..] > > Kent Overstreet (13): > > block: Generalized bio pool freeing > > dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info > > block: Add bio_reset() > > pktcdvd: Switch to bio_kmalloc() > > block: Kill bi_destructor > > block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc() > > This patch series says "Block Cleanups" in the subject. I think that > it can be divided in two parts. First part seems to be cleanup where > we get rid of ->bi_destructor and merge kmalloc() and allocation > from bio_set. > > Second part seems to be more of enhancing bio splitting functionality > and not necessarily a cleanup. So may be breaking this series in two > parts makes sense. First part is cleanup and second part is enhanced > bio splitting capabilities of block layer. Yeah, that's a good idea - will do. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/