Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:08:11 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V11 02/19] block: introduce multi-page bvec helpers
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:06:11PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> 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?

Your above grep statement seems to catch every use of struct bvec_iter,
due to the *.

Most uses of bvec_iter_ are either in the block headers, or are
ceph wrappers that match the above and can easily be redefined.