[Drbd-dev] [PATCH v3 01/11] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:52:03PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > +	return bio_split(bio, split_sectors, GFP_NOIO, bs);
> 
> Much of this function is cut-n-paste from blk-lib.c.  Is there any way
> to factor it out?

The code in blk-lib.c can go away now that any driver that cares
does the split.

> > +static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
> > +					 struct bio *bio,
> > +					 struct bio_set *bs)
> > +{
> 
> Funny name for a function that also merges segments.  ;-)  I admit I am
> at a loss for coming up with a better name that won't overflow 80
> columns.

I'd keep the name and add a funny comment instead.