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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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