On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:03:14PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It seems like bi_phys_segments is still around of this series.
> Shouldn't it be superflous now?
Even though multi-page bvec is supported, the segment number doesn't
equal to the actual bvec count yet, for example, one bvec may
It seems like bi_phys_segments is still around of this series.
Shouldn't it be superflous now?
Hi,
This patchset brings multi-page bvec into block layer:
1) what is multi-page bvec?
Multipage bvecs means that one 'struct bio_bvec' can hold multiple pages
which are physically contiguous instead of one single page used in linux
kernel for long time.
2) why is multi-page bvec introduced?
