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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 08:25:19 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH 00/60] block: support multipage bvec
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Hi Ming,

can you send a first patch just doing the obvious cleanups like
converting to bio_add_page and replacing direct poking into the
bio with the proper accessors?  That should help reducing the
actual series to a sane size, and it should also help to cut
down the Cc list.