On 3/21/19 8:23 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > On 21/03/2019 15:21, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On 3/21/19 8:15 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: >>> You also haven't solved the issue of now having an extra bit, 2/2 uses >>> the last bit which the other patch already took... >> >> Here's one way - kill BIO_SEG_VALID. We should just use >> ->bi_phys_segments to tell if it's valid or not. This patch uses -1 to >> signify it's not. >> >> Totally untested... > > > That sounds like an idea, I'll trow some testing at it and report back.
That'd be great, thanks. If we can do that as a prep patch for you, then you can just use an enum and not worry about initializing since I'll just shove BIO_PAGE_NO_REF at the end. And this is simpler than having to shift the masks around. -- Jens Axboe
