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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2017-06-18 14:38:57 +1000
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-06-18 12:40:59 -0600
commit011067b05668b05aae88e5a24cff0ca0a67ca0b0 (patch)
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parentaf67c31fba3b879b241536a48df703a2eee18ebf (diff)
downloadlinux-011067b05668b05aae88e5a24cff0ca0a67ca0b0.tar.gz
blk: replace bioset_create_nobvec() with a flags arg to bioset_create()
"flags" arguments are often seen as good API design as they allow
easy extensibility.
bioset_create_nobvec() is implemented internally as a variation in
flags passed to __bioset_create().

To support future extension, make the internal structure part of the
API.
i.e. add a 'flags' argument to bioset_create() and discard
bioset_create_nobvec().

Note that the bio_split allocations in drivers/md/raid* do not need
the bvec mempool - they should have used bioset_create_nobvec().

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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