From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] md: fast clone bio in bio_clone_mddev() Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:01:09 -0800 Message-ID: <20170214160109.GA32705@infradead.org> References: <1487086143-10255-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> <1487086143-10255-6-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1487086143-10255-6-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ming Lei Cc: Shaohua Li , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , NeilBrown List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:29:03PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Firstly bio_clone_mddev() is used in raid normal I/O and isn't > in resync I/O path. > > Secondly all the direct access to bvec table in raid happens on > resync I/O except for write behind of raid1, in which we still > use bio_clone() for allocating new bvec table. > > So this patch replaces bio_clone() with bio_clone_fast() > in bio_clone_mddev(). > > Also kill bio_clone_mddev() and call bio_clone_fast() directly, as > suggested by Christoph Hellwig. > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Looks fine, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Btw, can you also tack on another patch to kill bio_alloc_mddev to be consistent?