Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] md: fast clone bio in bio_clone_mddev()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Feb 14 2017 - 11:01:26 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:29:03PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Firstly bio_clone_mddev() is used in raid normal I/O and isn't
> in resync I/O path.
>
> Secondly all the direct access to bvec table in raid happens on
> resync I/O except for write behind of raid1, in which we still
> use bio_clone() for allocating new bvec table.
>
> So this patch replaces bio_clone() with bio_clone_fast()
> in bio_clone_mddev().
>
> Also kill bio_clone_mddev() and call bio_clone_fast() directly, as
> suggested by Christoph Hellwig.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Btw, can you also tack on another patch to kill bio_alloc_mddev
to be consistent?