Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34052 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729828AbeKVBmJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:42:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:06:11 +0800 From: Ming Lei To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Theodore Ts'o , Omar Sandoval , Sagi Grimberg , Dave Chinner , Kent Overstreet , Mike Snitzer , dm-devel@redhat.com, Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, David Sterba , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J . Wong" , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Gao Xiang , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Coly Li , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, Boaz Harrosh , Bob Peterson , cluster-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V11 02/19] block: introduce multi-page bvec helpers Message-ID: <20181121150610.GA19111@ming.t460p> References: <20181121032327.8434-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> <20181121032327.8434-3-ming.lei@redhat.com> <20181121131928.GA1640@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181121131928.GA1640@lst.de> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 02:19:28PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:23:10AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > This patch introduces helpers of 'segment_iter_*' for multipage > > bvec support. > > > > The introduced helpers treate one bvec as real multi-page segment, > > which may include more than one pages. > > Unless I'm missing something these bvec vs segment names are exactly > inverted vs how we use it elsewhere. > > In the iterators we use segment for single-page bvec, and bvec for multi > page ones, and here it is inverse. Please switch it around. bvec_iter_* is used for single-page bvec in current linus tree, and there are lots of users now: [linux]$ git grep -n "bvec_iter_*" ./ | wc 191 995 13242 If we have to switch it first, it can be a big change, just wondering if Jens is happy with that? Thanks, Ming