Re: [PATCH 00/10] Misc block layer patches for bcachefs

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri May 11 2018 - 17:13:47 EST


On 5/8/18 7:33 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> - Add separately allowed mempools, biosets: bcachefs uses both all over the
> place
>
> - Bit of utility code - bio_copy_data_iter(), zero_fill_bio_iter()
>
> - bio_list_copy_data(), the bi_next check - defensiveness because of a bug I
> had fun chasing down at one point
>
> - add some exports, because bcachefs does dio its own way
> - show whether fua is supported in sysfs, because I don't know of anything that
> exports whether the _block layer_ specifically thinks fua is supported.

Looked over the series, and looks like both good cleanups and optimizations.
If we can get the mempool patch sorted, I can apply this for 4.18.

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Jens Axboe