Re: [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec

Ming Lei
2018-06-14T01:21:15Z

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