On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:33:00AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to participate in LSF/MM and discuss multipage bvecs. >> >> Kent posted the idea[1] before, but never pushed out. >> I have studied multipage bvecs for a while, and think >> it is a good idea to improve block subsystem. >> >> Multipage bvecs means that one 'struct bio_bvec' can hold >> multiple pages which are physically contiguous instead >> of one single page used in current kernel. > > Btw, do you have a current version of the multipage biovec patches > somewhere? The helpers change are basically ready, and one new parameter is added to bio_for_each_segment_all(), so its all callers need this kind of change, Also bio_clone() & bvec updating isn't started, but this kind of work should not be very difficult to complete. So the work is in progressing, but I can setup a tree and make it public if anyone is intereseted in. Thanks, Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
