linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 45/60] block: bio: introduce bio_for_each_segment_all

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Message-ID: <20161031151123.GA3193@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 08:11:23 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 45/60] block: bio: introduce
 bio_for_each_segment_all_rd() and its write pair

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 09:59:43AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> What is _rd and _wt supposed to stand for?

I think it's read and write, but I think the naming is highly
unfortunate.  I started dabbling around with the patches a bit,
and to keep my sanity a started reaming it to _pages and _bvec
which is the real semantics - the _rd or _pages gives you a synthetic
bvec for each page, and the other one gives you the full bvec.