Re: [PATCH V10 09/19] block: introduce bio_bvecs()

Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-20T16:17:10Z

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 04:49:27PM -0800, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
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>> The only user in your final tree seems to be the loop driver, and
>> even that one only uses the helper for read/write bios.
>>
>> I think something like this would be much simpler in the end:
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> The recently submitted nvme-tcp host driver should also be a user
> of this. Does it make sense to keep it as a helper then?

I did take a brief look at the code, and I really don't understand
why the heck it even deals with bios to start with. Like all the
other nvme transports it is a blk-mq driver and should iterate
over segments in a request and more or less ignore bios. Something
is horribly wrong in the design.