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    blk: use non-rescuing bioset for q->bio_split. · 93b27e72
    NeilBrown authored
    A rescuing bioset is only useful if there might be bios from
    that same bioset on the bio_list_on_stack queue at a time
    when bio_alloc_bioset() is called.  This never applies to
    q->bio_split.
    
    Allocations from q->bio_split are only ever made from
    blk_queue_split() which is only ever called early in each of
    various make_request_fn()s.  The original bio (call this A)
    is then passed to generic_make_request() and is placed on
    the bio_list_on_stack queue, and the bio that was allocated
    from q->bio_split (B) is processed.
    
    The processing of this may cause other bios to be passed to
    generic_make_request() or may even cause the bio B itself to
    be passed, possible after some prefix has been split off
    (using some other bioset).
    
    generic_make_request() now guarantees that all of these bios
    (B and dependants) will be fully processed before the tail
    of the original bio A gets handled.  None of these early bios
    can possible trigger an allocation from the original
    q->bio_split as they are either too small to require
    splitting or (more likely) are destined for a different queue.
    
    The next time that the original q->bio_split might be used
    by this thread is when A is processed again, as it might
    still be too big to handle directly.  By this time there
    cannot be any other bios allocated from q->bio_split in the
    generic_make_request() queue.  So no rescuing will ever be
    needed.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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