Hi Ted,
2011/6/30 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>:
> These days, bio_alloc() is guaranteed to never fail (as long as nvecs
> is less than BIO_MAX_PAGES), so we don't need the loop around the
> struct bio allocation.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext4/page-io.c | 6 +-----
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> index 7bb8f76..430c401 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
> @@ -285,11 +285,7 @@ static int io_submit_init(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
> io_end = ext4_init_io_end(inode, GFP_NOFS);
> if (!io_end)
> return -ENOMEM;
> - do {
> - bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, nvecs);
> - nvecs >>= 1;
> - } while (bio == NULL);
> -
> + bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, min(nvecs, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
Is this needn't to check if bio_alloc success?
> bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
> bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
> bio->bi_private = io->io_end = io_end;
> --
> 1.7.4.1.22.gec8e1.dirty
>
> --
Asked-by: LiuQi <lingjiujianke@xxxxxxxxx>
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