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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>,
	Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	"linux-btrfs @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 5/8] btrfs: use BIOs instead of buffer_heads from superblock writeout
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:08:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200214150850.GY2902@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200213152436.13276-6-johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:24:33AM +0900, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> +		/*
> +		 * Directly use BIOs here instead of relying on the page-cache
> +		 * to do I/O, so we don't loose the ability to do integrity
> +		 * checking.
> +		 */
> +		bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOFS, 1);
> +		bio_set_dev(bio, device->bdev);
> +		bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = bytenr >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
> +		bio->bi_private = device;
> +		bio->bi_end_io = btrfs_end_super_write;

As a potential future cleanup and simplification, the per-device flush
bio can be used here and not a new one allocated. The flush bios are
sent synchronously and are free for later use by the async submit
writes.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-14 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 15:24 [PATCH v8 0/8] btrfs: remove buffer heads form superblock handling Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] btrfs: Export btrfs_release_disk_super Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] btrfs: don't kmap() pages from block devices Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] btrfs: reduce scope of btrfs_scratch_superblocks() Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-18  3:14   ` Anand Jain
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] btrfs: use the page-cache for super block reading Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-14 13:59   ` David Sterba
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] btrfs: use BIOs instead of buffer_heads from superblock writeout Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-14 15:02   ` David Sterba
2020-02-14 15:08   ` David Sterba [this message]
2020-02-14 15:15     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-18  9:28   ` Anand Jain
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] btrfs: remove btrfsic_submit_bh() Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-18  9:30   ` Anand Jain
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] btrfs: remove buffer_heads from btrfsic_process_written_block() Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-13 15:24 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] btrfs: remove buffer_heads form superblock mirror integrity checking Johannes Thumshirn
2020-02-14 13:53   ` David Sterba
2020-02-14 15:43   ` David Sterba
2020-02-20 15:56 ` [PATCH v8 0/8] btrfs: remove buffer heads form superblock handling David Sterba

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