In MD's resync I/O path, there are lots of direct access to bio's bvec table. This patchset kills most of them, and the conversion is quite straightforward. Once direct access to bvec table in MD is cleaned up, we may make multipage bvec moving on. Thanks, Ming Ming Lei (17): block: introduce bio_segments_all() block: introduce bio_remove_last_page() md: raid1/raid10: use bio_remove_last_page() md: introduce helpers for dealing with fetch/store preallocated pages in bio md: raid1/raid10: use the introduced helpers md: raid1/raid10: borrow .bi_error as pre-allocated page index md: raid1/raid10: don't use .bi_vcnt to check if all pages are added md: raid1: simplify r1buf_pool_free() md: raid1/raid10: use bio helper in *_pool_free md: raid1: remove direct access to bvec table in fix_sync_read_error md: raid1: use bio helper in process_checks() md: raid1: avoid direct access to bvec table in process_checks() md: raid1: use bio_segments_all() md: raid10: avoid direct access to bvec table in sync_request_write() md: raid10: avoid direct access to bvec table in fix_recovery_read_error md: raid10: avoid direct access to bvec table in reshape_request md: raid10: avoid direct access to bvec table in handle_reshape_read_error block/bio.c | 23 ++++++++++++++ drivers/md/md.h | 21 +++++++++++++ drivers/md/raid1.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- drivers/md/raid10.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ include/linux/bio.h | 8 +++++ 5 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html