Hi, Although there are some out-of-date comments mentions other bio_clone_*() variants, but there isn't really any other bio clone variants other than __bio_clone_fast(), which shares bi_io_vec with the source bio. This limits means we can't free the source bio before the cloned one. Is there any bio_clone variant which do a deep clone, including bi_io_vec? The background story is a little long, with btrfs involved. Unlike dm/md-raid which uses bio_split(), btrfs splits its bio before even creating a bio. Every time btrfs wants to create a bio, it will calculate the boundary, thus will only create a bio which never cross various raid boundary. But this is not really the common practice, I'd like to at least change the timing of bio split so that reflects more like dm/md raid. That's why the bio_clone thing is involved, there is still some corner cases that we don't want to fail the whole large bio if there is only one stripe failed (mostly for read bio, that we want to salvage as much data as possible) Thus regular bio_split() + bio_chain() solution is not that good here. Any idea why no such bio_clone_slow() or bio_split_slow() provided in block layer? Or really bio_split() + bio_chain() is the only recommended solution? Thanks, Qu
