linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 20/49] block: introduce bio_for_each_segment

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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 05:11:10 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 20/49] block: introduce bio_for_each_segment_mp()

First: as mentioned in the previous patches I really hate the name
scheme with the _sp and _mp postfixes.

To be clear and understandable we should always name the versions
that iterate over segments *segment* and the ones that iterate over
pages *page*.  To make sure we have a clean compile break for code
using the old _segment name I'd suggest to move to pass the bvec_iter
argument by reference, which is the right thing to do anyway.

As far as the implementation goes I don't think we actually need
to pass the mp argument down.  Instead we always call the full-segment
version of  bvec_iter_len / __bvec_iter_advance and then have an
inner loop that moves the fake bvecs forward inside each full-segment
one - that is implement the per-page version on top of the per-segment
one.