On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 01:43:21AM -0800, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>
> > V14:
> > - drop patch(patch 4 in V13) for renaming bvec helpers, as suggested by
> > Jens
> > - use mp_bvec_* as multi-page bvec helper name
> > - fix one build issue, which is caused by missing one converion of
> >
V14:
- drop patch(patch 4 in V13) for renaming bvec helpers, as suggested by
Jens
- use mp_bvec_* as multi-page bvec helper name
- fix one build issue, which is caused by missing one converion of
bio_for_each_segment_all in fs/gfs2
- fix one 32bit ARCH
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:38:10AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:37:12PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:22:46AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:17:47PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > > V14:
> > > > - drop
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 04:17:47PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> V14:
> - drop patch(patch 4 in V13) for renaming bvec helpers, as suggested by
> Jens
> - use mp_bvec_* as multi-page bvec helper name
WTF? Where is this coming from? mp is just a nightmare of a name,
and I also didn't see
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?