[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 00/42] v5: separate operations from flags in the bio/request structs

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 04/13/2016 09:35 PM, mchristi at redhat.com wrote:
> The following patches begin to cleanup the request->cmd_flags and
> bio->bi_rw mess. We currently use cmd_flags to specify the operation,
> attributes and state of the request. For bi_rw we use it for similar
> info and also the priority but then also have another bi_flags field
> for state. At some point, we abused them so much we just made cmd_flags
> 64 bits, so we could add more.
> 
> The following patches seperate the operation (read, write discard,
> flush, etc) from cmd_flags/bi_rw.
> 
> This patchset was made against linux-next from today April 13
> (git tag next-20160413).
> 
> I put a git tree here:
> https://github.com/mikechristie/linux-kernel.git
> The patches are in the op branch.
> 
A round of applause for you.

For the entire series:

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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