[PATCH 11/17] block: factor out helper for bio allocation from cache

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Mar 10 00:35:03 PST 2022


On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 08:50:59PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> +struct bio *bio_alloc_kiocb(struct kiocb *kiocb, unsigned short nr_vecs,
> +			    struct bio_set *bs)
> +{
> +	if (!(kiocb->ki_flags & IOCB_ALLOC_CACHE))
> +		return bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_KERNEL, nr_vecs, bs);
> +
> +	return bio_from_cache(nr_vecs, bs);
> +}
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bio_alloc_kiocb);

If we go down this route we might want to just kill the bio_alloc_kiocb
wrapper.



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