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

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Message-ID: <20180613145908.GB17340@kmo-pixel>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:59:08 -0400
From:   Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Coly Li <colyli@...e.de>, Filipe Manana <fdmanana@...il.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec

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...?)