Re: [RFC 06/12] bio: don't check target->bi_status on error

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.block,gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs,gmane.linux.raid,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 09:41:49AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 12:10:13PM +0000, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > In a few places, target->bi_status is set to source->bi_status only if
> > > source->bi_status is not 0 and target->bi_status is (still) 0.  Here,
> > > checking the value of target->bi_status before setting it is an
> > > unnecessary micro optimization because we are already on an error path.
> >
> > What is source and target here?  I have a hard time trying to follow
> > what this is trying to do.
> 
> Not sure, what would you suggest instead?

I still don't understand what you're saying here at all, or what this is
trying to fix or optimize.
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