Re: store a pointer to the block_device in struct bio (again) v2

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On 1/24/21 3:02 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> this series switches back from storing the gendisk + partno to storing
> a block_device pointer in struct bio.  The reason is two fold:  for one
> the new struct block_device actually is always available, removing the
> need to avoid originally.  Second the merge struct block_device is much
> more useful than the old one, as storing it avoids the need for looking
> up what used to be hd_struct during partition remapping and I/O
> accounting.

Applied for 5.12, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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