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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alex Lyakas <alex@zadara.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: preserve BIO_REFFED flag in bio_reset()
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 01:08:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190513080838.GA5962@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190408063052.GA9257@infradead.org>

On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 11:30:52PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 05:35:45PM +0300, Alex Lyakas wrote:
> > Hi Christoph,
> > 
> > I understand and agree with your concern.
> > 
> > Looking at the code, bi_flags is 16-bits wide, and only top 3 bits are
> > preserved by bio_reset(). These bits are used to indicate a bvec pool.
> > So we don't have any free bits to move the BIO_REFFED to. Unless we
> > make bi_flags wider.
> 
> I think we just need to move BIO_REFFED around.  Something like the
> untested patch below should do the job, although blk_types.h could
> use some additional cleanup in this area..

Any comments?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-13  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-06 13:03 [PATCH] block: preserve BIO_REFFED flag in bio_reset() Alex Lyakas
2019-04-06 18:58 ` Jens Axboe
2019-04-07  7:42   ` Alex Lyakas
2019-04-07  7:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-07 14:35     ` Alex Lyakas
2019-04-08  6:30       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-13  8:08         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-04-07 19:38     ` Jens Axboe

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