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

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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:20:53 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.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 Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:59:08AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> 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...?)

This patchset takes the chunk naming.

And 'chunk' represents multipage bvec, and 'segment' represents singlepage bvec
basically.

Thanks,
Ming