Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Nov 2013 15:36:40 -0500 | From | Mike Snitzer <> | Subject | Re: block: Revert bio_clone() default behaviour |
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On Wed, Nov 06 2013 at 3:22pm -0500, Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com> wrote:
> Quoting Kent Overstreet (2013-11-06 15:02:22) > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 11:11:30AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > > > > > > I think the concept of bio ownership is still much too weak, at least > > > for established users like MD and DM. I don't know how to verify the > > > sharing of bi_io_vec without some kind of reference counting on the > > > iovec. > > > > What's unclear about it? The rule is just - if you didn't allocate the biovec, > > don't modify it or use bio_for_each_segment_all() (probably I didn't quite state > > it clearly enough before though) > > That part makes sense. The new rule that scares me is that we can't > free the src of the clone until all the clones are freed. If it works > with today's existing users it feels like it is more by accident than > design. I'm not saying we can't do it, we just need some bigger > flashing warning lights.
But we probably don't want those warning lights to come with the cost of managing extra refcounts in the fast path -- so maybe a debug-only refcount?
Mike
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