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Date:   Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:20:53 +0800
From:   Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
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        Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>, Filipe Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:59:08AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 08:29:44PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This patchset brings multipage bvec into block layer:
> 
> Ming, what's going on with the chunk naming? I haven't been paying attention
> because it feels like it's turned into bike shedding, but I just saw something
> about a 3rd way of iterating over bios? (page/segment/chunk...?)

This patchset takes the chunk naming.

And 'chunk' represents multipage bvec, and 'segment' represents singlepage bvec
basically.

Thanks,
Ming