From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qt0-f197.google.com (mail-qt0-f197.google.com [209.85.216.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4646B000C for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 21:21:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qt0-f197.google.com with SMTP id 12-v6so3367240qtq.8 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com. [66.187.233.73]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s29-v6si2923732qki.146.2018.06.13.18.21.15 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:20:53 +0800 From: Ming Lei Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec Message-ID: <20180614012052.GB19828@ming.t460p> References: <20180609123014.8861-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> <20180613145908.GB17340@kmo-pixel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180613145908.GB17340@kmo-pixel> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Kent Overstreet Cc: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Alexander Viro , David Sterba , Huang Ying , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Theodore Ts'o , "Darrick J . Wong" , Coly Li , Filipe Manana , Randy Dunlap On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:59:08AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 08:29:44PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This patchset brings multipage bvec into block layer: > > Ming, what's going on with the chunk naming? I haven't been paying attention > because it feels like it's turned into bike shedding, but I just saw something > about a 3rd way of iterating over bios? (page/segment/chunk...?) This patchset takes the chunk naming. And 'chunk' represents multipage bvec, and 'segment' represents singlepage bvec basically. Thanks, Ming