On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/30/2016 07:34 AM, Ming Lei 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, which >> can be thought as a good cleanup for lib/iov_iter.c >> >> 2) remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS and makre BIO_MAX_SIZE as obsolete, 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. >> >> The only functional change is iterate_bvec():lib/iov_iter.c >> >> xfstests(-a auto) over loop aio is run for ext4/xfs to verify >> the change and no regression found with this patchset. > > > Added patches 1-7, still waiting for an answer on my reply to #8. Thanks for adding patches 1-7, and now I just found the added BIO_MAX_SIZE usage in dm-crypt.c is droped from next, so it is safe to kill it now. I will send a new patch #8 against for-4.8/core. Thanks, Ming > > -- > Jens Axboe > > > -- > 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 -- 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
