Christoph Hellwig
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bio_check_pages_dirty currently inviolates the invariant that bv_page of a bio_vec inside bi_vcnt shouldn't be zero, and that is going to become really annoying with multpath biovecs. Fortunately there isn't any all that good reason for it - once we decide to defer freeing the bio to a workqueue holding onto a few additional pages isn't really an issue anymore. So just check if there is a clean page that needs dirtying in the first path, and do a second pass to free them if there was none, while the cache is still hot. Also use the chance to micro-optimize bio_dirty_fn a bit by not saving irq state - we know we are called from a workqueue. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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