Re: [PATCH] block: remove bio_rewind_iter()

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On 9/4/18 9:33 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
> It is pointed that bio_rewind_iter() is one very bad API[1]:
> 
> 1) bio size may not be restored after rewinding
> 
> 2) it causes some bogus change, such as 5151842b9d8732 (block: reset
> bi_iter.bi_done after splitting bio)
> 
> 3) rewinding really makes things complicated wrt. bio splitting
> 
> 4) unnecessary updating of .bi_done in fast path
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?t=153549924200005&r=1&w=2
> 
> So this patch takes Kent's suggestion to restore one bio into its original
> state via saving bio iterator(struct bvec_iter) in bio_integrity_prep(),
> given now bio_rewind_iter() is only used by bio integrity code.

Applied, thanks Ming.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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