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| author | Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> | 2015-04-27 23:48:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> | 2015-08-13 12:31:57 -0600 |
| commit | 8ae126660fddbeebb9251a174e6fa45b6ad8f932 (patch) | |
| tree | fe471f94c8686b59f7a07b5b4f59ee4f51254902 /block/blk-settings.c | |
| parent | 7140aafce2fc14c5af02fdb7859b6bea0108be3d (diff) | |
block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-settings.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/blk-settings.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c index b38d8d723276..9df73991b231 100644 --- a/block/blk-settings.c +++ b/block/blk-settings.c @@ -53,28 +53,6 @@ void blk_queue_unprep_rq(struct request_queue *q, unprep_rq_fn *ufn) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_unprep_rq); -/** - * blk_queue_merge_bvec - set a merge_bvec function for queue - * @q: queue - * @mbfn: merge_bvec_fn - * - * Usually queues have static limitations on the max sectors or segments that - * we can put in a request. Stacking drivers may have some settings that - * are dynamic, and thus we have to query the queue whether it is ok to - * add a new bio_vec to a bio at a given offset or not. If the block device - * has such limitations, it needs to register a merge_bvec_fn to control - * the size of bio's sent to it. Note that a block device *must* allow a - * single page to be added to an empty bio. The block device driver may want - * to use the bio_split() function to deal with these bio's. By default - * no merge_bvec_fn is defined for a queue, and only the fixed limits are - * honored. - */ -void blk_queue_merge_bvec(struct request_queue *q, merge_bvec_fn *mbfn) -{ - q->merge_bvec_fn = mbfn; -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_merge_bvec); - void blk_queue_softirq_done(struct request_queue *q, softirq_done_fn *fn) { q->softirq_done_fn = fn; |