On Mon, Aug 13 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: > > You did not comment on the one about putting the bio destructor in > > the ->endio handler, which looks dead simple. The majority of cases > > just use the default endio handler and the default destructor. Of the > > remaining cases, where a specialized destructor is needed, typically a > > specialized endio handler is too, so combining is free. There are few > > if any cases where a new specialized endio handler would need to be > > written. > > We could do that without too much work, I agree. But that idea fails as well, since reference counts and IO completion are two completely seperate entities. So unless end IO just happens to be the last user holding a reference to the bio, you cannot free it. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
