From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/35 v2] separate operations from flags in the bio/request structs Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:13:41 +1100 Message-ID: <20160107031341.GC32200@dastard> References: <1452027218-32303-1-git-send-email-mchristi@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: mchristi@redhat.com, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, philipp.reisner@linbit.com, lars.ellenberg@linbit.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, osd-dev@open-osd.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com To: "Martin K. Petersen" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 08:40:09PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == mchristi writes: > > Mike> The following patches begin to cleanup the request->cmd_flags and > bio-> bi_rw mess. We currently use cmd_flags to specify the operation, > Mike> attributes and state of the request. For bi_rw we use it for > Mike> similar info and also the priority but then also have another > Mike> bi_flags field for state. At some point, we abused them so much we > Mike> just made cmd_flags 64 bits, so we could add more. > > Mike> The following patches seperate the operation (read, write discard, > Mike> flush, etc) from cmd_flags/bi_rw. > > Mike> This patchset was made against linux-next from today Jan 5 2016. > Mike> (git tag next-20160105). > > Very nice work. Thanks for doing this! > > I think it's a much needed cleanup. I focused mainly on the core block, > discard, write same and sd.c pieces and everything looks sensible to me. > > I wonder what the best approach is to move a patch set with this many > stakeholders forward? Set a "speak now or forever hold your peace" > review deadline? I say just ask Linus to pull it immediately after the next merge window closes.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com