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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/23] block: factor out a bvec_set_page helper
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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On 1/30/23 01:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a helper to initialize a bvec based of a page pointer.  This will help
> removing various open code bvec initializations.

Why do you want to remove the open-coded bvec initializations? What is 
wrong with open-coding bvec initialization? This patch series modifies a 
lot of code but does not improve code readability. Anyone who encounters 
code that uses the new function bvec_set_page() has to look up the 
definition of that function to figure out what it does.

> -	iv = bip->bip_vec + bip->bip_vcnt;
> -
>   	if (bip->bip_vcnt &&
>   	    bvec_gap_to_prev(&bdev_get_queue(bio->bi_bdev)->limits,
>   			     &bip->bip_vec[bip->bip_vcnt - 1], offset))
>   		return 0;
>   
> -	iv->bv_page = page;
> -	iv->bv_len = len;
> -	iv->bv_offset = offset;
> +	bvec_set_page(&bip->bip_vec[bip->bip_vcnt], page, len, offset);
>   	bip->bip_vcnt++;

Has it been considered to use structure assignment instead of 
introducing bvec_set_page(), e.g. as follows?

bip->bip_vec[bip->bip_vcnt] = (struct bio_vec) {
       .bv_page = page, .bv_len = len, .bv_offset = offset };

Thanks,

Bart.