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Commit dba14160 authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Alasdair G Kergon
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dm: store dm_target_io in bio front_pad



Use the recently-added bio front_pad field to allocate struct dm_target_io.

Prior to this patch, dm_target_io was allocated from a mempool. For each
dm_target_io, there is exactly one bio allocated from a bioset.

This patch merges these two allocations into one allocation: we create a
bioset with front_pad equal to the size of dm_target_io so that every
bio allocated from the bioset has sizeof(struct dm_target_io) bytes
before it. We allocate a bio and use the bytes before the bio as
dm_target_io.

_tio_cache is removed and the tio_pool mempool is now only used for
request-based devices.

This idea was introduced by Kent Overstreet.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@viridian.itc.virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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