This patch introduces helpers which are suffixed with _mp
and _sp for the multipage bvec/segment support.
The helpers with _mp suffix are the interfaces for treating
one bvec/segment as real multipage one, for example, .bv_len
is the total length of the multipage segment.
The helpers with _sp suffix are interfaces for supporting
current bvec iterator which is thought as singlepage only
by drivers, fs, dm and etc. These _sp helpers are introduced
to build singlepage bvec in flight, so users of bio/bvec
iterator still can work well and needn't change even though
we store multipage into bvec.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/bvec.h | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h
index 162ca7caf510..f52587e283d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/bvec.h
+++ b/include/linux/bvec.h
@@ -24,6 +24,42 @@
#include <linux/bug.h>
/*
+ * What is multipage bvecs(segment)?
+ *
+ * - bvec stored in bio->bi_io_vec is always multipage style vector
+ *
+ * - bvec(struct bio_vec) represents one physically contiguous I/O
+ * buffer, now the buffer may include more than one pages since
+ * multipage(mp) bvec is supported, and all these pages represented
+ * by one bvec is physically contiguous. Before mp support, at most
+ * one page can be included in one bvec, we call it singlepage(sp)
+ * bvec.
+ *
+ * - .bv_page of th bvec represents the 1st page in the mp segment
+ *
+ * - .bv_offset of the bvec represents offset of the buffer in the bvec
+ *
+ * The effect on the current drivers/filesystem/dm/bcache/...:
+ *
+ * - almost everyone supposes that one bvec only includes one single
+ * page, so we keep the sp interface not changed, for example,
+ * bio_for_each_segment() still returns bvec with single page
+ *
+ * - bio_for_each_segment_all() will be changed to return singlepage
+ * bvec too
+ *
+ * - during iterating, iterator variable(struct bvec_iter) is always
+ * updated in multipage bvec style and that means bvec_iter_advance()
+ * is kept not changed
+ *
+ * - returned(copied) singlepage bvec is generated in flight by bvec
+ * helpers from the stored mp bvec
+ *
+ * - In case that some components(such as iov_iter) need to support mp
+ * segment, we introduce new helpers(suffixed with _mp) for them.
+ */
+
+/*
* was unsigned short, but we might as well be ready for > 64kB I/O pages
*/
struct bio_vec {
@@ -49,16 +85,30 @@ struct bvec_iter {
*/
#define __bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter) (&(bvec)[(iter).bi_idx])
-#define bvec_iter_page(bvec, iter) \
+#define bvec_iter_page_mp(bvec, iter) \
(__bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter))->bv_page)
-#define bvec_iter_len(bvec, iter) \
+#define bvec_iter_len_mp(bvec, iter) \
min((iter).bi_size, \
__bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter))->bv_len - (iter).bi_bvec_done)
-#define bvec_iter_offset(bvec, iter) \
+#define bvec_iter_offset_mp(bvec, iter) \
(__bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter))->bv_offset + (iter).bi_bvec_done)
+/*
+ * <page, offset,length> of singlepage(sp) segment.
+ *
+ * This helpers will be implemented for building sp bvec in flight.
+ */
+#define bvec_iter_offset_sp(bvec, iter) bvec_iter_offset_mp((bvec), (iter))
+#define bvec_iter_len_sp(bvec, iter) bvec_iter_len_mp((bvec), (iter))
+#define bvec_iter_page_sp(bvec, iter) bvec_iter_page_mp((bvec), (iter))
+
+/* current interfaces support sp style at default */
+#define bvec_iter_page(bvec, iter) bvec_iter_page_sp((bvec), (iter))
+#define bvec_iter_len(bvec, iter) bvec_iter_len_sp((bvec), (iter))
+#define bvec_iter_offset(bvec, iter) bvec_iter_offset_sp((bvec), (iter))
+
#define bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter) \
((struct bio_vec) { \
.bv_page = bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)), \
--
2.9.4
--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
