On Thursday 06 December 2007 16:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:04:41 -0800
>
> Daniel Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The runner up key idea is that we will gain a notion of "block
> > device stack" (or block stack for short, so that we may implement
> > block stackers) which for the time being will simply be Device
> > Mapper's notion of device stack, however many warts that may have.
> > It's there now and we use it for ddsnap.
>
> Perhaps all we need to track is the outermost point?
>
> submit_bio(...)
> {
> bool remove_the_rq = false;
>
> ...
> if (current->the_rq == NULL) {
> current->the_rq = rq;
> remove_the_rq = true;
> }
> ...
> if (remove_the_rq)
> current->the_rq = NULL;
> }
>
> ?
The parent patch already has that crucial property in a simple say, see
if (q && q->metric && !bio->bi_queue) {
bio->bi_queue = q;
Regards,
Daniel
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