On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 08:40:09PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == mchristi <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Mike> The following patches begin to cleanup the request->cmd_flags and > bio-> bi_rw mess. We currently use cmd_flags to specify the operation, > Mike> attributes and state of the request. For bi_rw we use it for > Mike> similar info and also the priority but then also have another > Mike> bi_flags field for state. At some point, we abused them so much we > Mike> just made cmd_flags 64 bits, so we could add more. > > Mike> The following patches seperate the operation (read, write discard, > Mike> flush, etc) from cmd_flags/bi_rw. > > Mike> This patchset was made against linux-next from today Jan 5 2016. > Mike> (git tag next-20160105). > > Very nice work. Thanks for doing this! > > I think it's a much needed cleanup. I focused mainly on the core block, > discard, write same and sd.c pieces and everything looks sensible to me. > > I wonder what the best approach is to move a patch set with this many > stakeholders forward? Set a "speak now or forever hold your peace" > review deadline? I say just ask Linus to pull it immediately after the next merge window closes.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
