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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:19:24 +0800 From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>, linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, Boaz Harrosh <ooo@...ctrozaur.com>, Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>, cluster-devel@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 08/19] btrfs: move bio_pages_all() to btrfs On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:38:45PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > BTRFS is the only user of this helper, so move this helper into > > BTRFS, and implement it via bio_for_each_segment_all(), since > > bio->bi_vcnt may not equal to number of pages after multipage bvec > > is enabled. > > btrfs only uses the value to check if it is larger than 1. No amount > of multipage bio merging should ever make bi_vcnt go from 0 to 1 or > vice versa. Could you explain a bit why? Suppose 2 physically continuous pages are added to this bio, .bi_vcnt can be 1 in case of multi-page bvec, but it is 2 in case of single-page bvec. Thanks, Ming
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