Hi,
Interests[1] have been shown in multipage bvecs, so this patchset
try to prepare for the support and do two things:
1) the 1st 4 patches use bvec iterator to implement iterate_bvec(),
then we can drop the non-standard way for iterating bvec, which
can be thought as a good cleanup for lib/iov_iter.c
2) remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS & BIO_MAX_SIZE, and now there is only
one user for each. Once multipage bvecs is introduced, one bio
may hold lots of sectors, and we should always use sort of BIO_MAX_VECS
which should be introduced in future and is similiar with current
BIO_MAX_PAGES.
xfstests(-a auto) have been run over ext4/xfs and no regression found
by this patchset.
V4:
- make xfstests cover xfs
- rebase on for-next of block tree
V3:
- include kenrel.h & bug.h in bvec.h for fix comiling failure on arm
as reported by 0day ktest
- build test on arm & arm64
V2:
- rename bvec_iter.h as bvec.h
- always include bvec.h into blk_types.h as suggested by Christoph
V1:
- don't move BIO_MAX_* to bvec_iter.h as pointed out by Christoph
- run xfstests against v4.6-rc1-next-20160329
- add Reviewed-by
- for 1,4 and 5, Reviewd-by not added, Christoph still expressed
'this looks fine to me.'
Ming Lei (10):
block: move bvec iterator into include/linux/bvec.h
block: move two bvec structure into bvec.h
block: mark 1st parameter of bvec_iter_advance as const
iov_iter: use bvec iterator to implement iterate_bvec()
fs: xfs: replace BIO_MAX_SECTORS with BIO_MAX_PAGES
block: bio: remove BIO_MAX_SECTORS
block: drbd: avoid to use BIO_MAX_SIZE
block: bio: remove BIO_MAX_SIZE
block: make sure big bio is splitted into at most 256 bvecs
block: allow to merge bios if splitting because of big bvecs num
block/blk-merge.c | 35 ++++++++++++++--
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h | 4 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 4 +-
include/linux/bio.h | 52 -----------------------
include/linux/blk_types.h | 22 +---------
include/linux/bvec.h | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/iov_iter.c | 30 +++++---------
7 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/linux/bvec.h
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