Re: [PATCH 01/34] block: add a lower-level bio_add_page interface

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On 5/18/18 10:47 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> For the upcoming removal of buffer heads in XFS we need to keep track of
> the number of outstanding writeback requests per page.  For this we need
> to know if bio_add_page merged a region with the previous bvec or not.
> Instead of adding additional arguments this refactors bio_add_page to
> be implemented using three lower level helpers which users like XFS can
> use directly if they care about the merge decisions.

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>

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Jens Axboe




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