Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:36:20 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 12/13] block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc() |
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Hello,
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:24:18PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > I'd prefer simply adding @bioset to bio_clone() so that the caller > > always has to make the choice consciously. We're updating all the > > callers anyway. > > Possibly, but the btrfs code uses bio_clone() and there fs_bio_set may > be correct (will have to look at what it's doing, if it's cloning a bio > that was allocated out of fs_bio_set that would be bad..)
Yeah, I think it's generally a good idea to require explicit bioset specification even if that ends up being fs_bio_set or NULL.
> I would also prefer to simply drop bio_clone() so that > bio_clone_bioset() matches bio_alloc_bioset(), but regardless that'll > have to be a different patch (and I don't think I've had to update any > of the bio_clone() callers in this patch series anyways).
Ooh yeah, bio_clone_bioset() would be the better name for it.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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