Remove the power-of-2 block size constraint on discards in dm thin
provisioning and factor the bio_prison code out into a separate
module (for sharing with the forthcoming cache target).
Use struct bio's front_pad to eliminate the use of one separate mempool
by bio-based devices.
A few other tiny clean-ups.
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: Mikulas 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: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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