On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Interests[1] have been shown in multipage bvecs, so this patchset > try to prepare for the support and do two things: > > 1) the 1st 4 patches use bvec iterator to implement iterate_bvec(), > then we can drop the non-standard way for iterating bvec > > 2) remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS & BIO_MAX_SIZE, and now there is only > one user for each. Once multipage bvecs is introduced, one bio > may hold lots of sectors, and we should always use sort of BIO_MAX_VECS > which should be introduced in future and is similiar with current > BIO_MAX_PAGES. > > xfstests(-a auto) have been run and no regression found by this > patchset against linus v4.5+. Hi Jens, Looks no one objects this patchset, and the change of iov_iter.c is a good cleanup too, so what do you think of the patchset? Thanks, Ming > > drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h | 4 +-- > fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 2 +- > include/linux/bio.h | 55 +------------------------------ > include/linux/blk_types.h | 4 +-- > include/linux/bvec_iter.h | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > lib/iov_iter.c | 31 +++++++---------- > 6 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) > > > [1], http://marc.info/?w=2&r=1&s=++[LSF%2FMM+ATTEND]+block%3A+multipage+bvecs&q=t > > > Thanks, > Ming > -- 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
