Re: [PATCH 1/2] blk-merge: return the merged request

2017-02-03 Thread Omar Sandoval
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:06:12AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > When we attempt to merge request-to-request, we return a 0/1 if we > ended up merging or not. Change that to return the pointer to the > request that we freed. We will use this to move the freeing of > that request out of the merge logic

[PATCH 1/2] blk-merge: return the merged request

2017-02-02 Thread Jens Axboe
When we attempt to merge request-to-request, we return a 0/1 if we ended up merging or not. Change that to return the pointer to the request that we freed. We will use this to move the freeing of that request out of the merge logic, so that callers can drop locks before freeing the request. There