Re: [PATCH 3/4] block: Dynamically allocate and refcount backing_dev_info

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On Wed 01-02-17 01:50:07, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 01:54:28PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Instead of storing backing_dev_info inside struct request_queue,
> > allocate it dynamically, reference count it, and free it when the last
> > reference is dropped. Currently only request_queue holds the reference
> > but in the following patch we add other users referencing
> > backing_dev_info.
> 
> Do we really need the separate slab cache?  Otherwise this looks
> fine to me.

Yeah, probably it is not worth it. I'll remove it.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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