[PATCH 000 of 5] Introductory patches for bio refactor.

From: NeilBrown
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 01:13:43 EST



Hi Jens,
I wonder if you would accept these patches the block layer.
They are, as far as I can tell, quite uncontroversial and provide
good cleanups.

The first is a minor bug-fix.
The next to replace helper function that take a bio (always the first
bio of a request), to instead take a request.

The last two combine to replace rq_for_each_bio with
rq_for_each_segment which makes blk_recalc_rq_segments a lot
cleaner, and improves (to a lesser degree) every other place that
used rq_for_each_bio.

The net result is a decrease in object code size (for my x86-64 compile)
for block/built-in.o of 96 bytes, though there is some growth out in
drivers making and over-all decrease of only 48 bytes.

Thanks,
NeilBrown



[PATCH 001 of 5] Don't update bi_hw_*_size if we aren't going to merge.
[PATCH 002 of 5] Replace bio_data with blk_rq_data
[PATCH 003 of 5] Replace bio_cur_sectors with blk_rq_cur_sectors.
[PATCH 004 of 5] Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing rq_for_each_bio
[PATCH 005 of 5] Merge blk_recount_segments into blk_recalc_rq_segments
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