Hi, With reference to the discussion [1] on the linux-block mailing list, this patch series adds a helper to map the buffer to bio and provides two variants for synchronous and asynchronous I/O submission. Right now only XFS is the only user, once gets accepted block/rnbd [2] code can re-use this helper and we can avoid code duplication. Please note that I've not tested the XFS patch yet, once I get some feedback, I'll add a test for the same in the xfstests. It will be great if XFS developers can provide some insight into testing log related code which used this helper. Regards, Chaitanya [1] Linux-Block Mailing list discussion on the same topic :- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg51040.html https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg51462.html https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg51465.html https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg51480.html Chaitanya Kulkarni (2): block: add bio based rw helper for data buffer xfs: use block layer helper for rw block/blk-lib.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/xfs/xfs_bio_io.c | 47 +----------------- include/linux/blkdev.h | 7 +++ 3 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) -- 2.22.1
