From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752956AbcDNGJj (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 02:09:39 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47370 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751253AbcDNGJg (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2016 02:09:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/42] v5: separate operations from flags in the bio/request structs To: 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 References: <1460576188-5751-1-git-send-email-mchristi@redhat.com> From: Hannes Reinecke Message-ID: <570F341A.2040108@suse.de> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 08:09:30 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1460576188-5751-1-git-send-email-mchristi@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/13/2016 09:35 PM, mchristi@redhat.com wrote: > The following patches begin to cleanup the request->cmd_flags and > bio->bi_rw mess. We currently use cmd_flags to specify the operation, > attributes and state of the request. For bi_rw we use it for similar > info and also the priority but then also have another bi_flags field > for state. At some point, we abused them so much we just made cmd_flags > 64 bits, so we could add more. > > The following patches seperate the operation (read, write discard, > flush, etc) from cmd_flags/bi_rw. > > This patchset was made against linux-next from today April 13 > (git tag next-20160413). > > I put a git tree here: > https://github.com/mikechristie/linux-kernel.git > The patches are in the op branch. > A round of applause for you. For the entire series: Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)