On 2/18/2025 11:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Many of the fields in struct bio_integrity_data Patch title and this should say - struct bio_integrity_payload. are only needed for > the default integrity buffer in the block layer, and the variable > sized array at the end of the structure makes it very hard to embed > into caller allocated structures. > > Reduce struct bio_integrity_data to the minimal structure needed in > common code, Same here. Seems bio_integrity_data is not meant to be used in common code. and create containing structures for the payload + bvec > allocation for submitter provided buffers, and the default integrity > code. Stop using mempools for the submitter buffers as they don't sit > below the I/O stack, Maybe it's just me, but I am yet to parse sitting below the I/O stack part.
