On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/14/2016 05:46 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 & 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 over ext4/xfs and no regression found >> by this patchset. > > > We've had too many disasters in the block layer the last few series, I'm > making the 4.7 round a nice and small one. I don't mind taking prep patches > for the multipage bvecs, if they are simple and clean, but that's about the > extent of it. > > Just a heads up. Jens, thanks for your response, and understood your concerns. Please hold on this patchset, and I will check it further and make it better. Thanks, _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
