Re: [RESEND PATCH V5 00/33] block: support multipage bvec

[Ming Lei]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 01:35:57AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 07:44:52PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Yes, we discussed exactly this, which is why I'm surprised you went
> > ahead with the same approach. I told you I don't like tree wide renames,
> > if they can be avoided. I'd rather suffer some pain wrt page vs segments
> > naming, and then later do a rename (if it bothers us) once the dust has
> > settled on the interesting part of the changes.
> > 
> > I'm very well away of our current naming and what it signifies.  With
> > #1, you are really splitting hairs, imho. Find a decent name for
> > multiple segment. Chunk?
> 
> vec?
> 
> bio_for_each_segment (page)
> bio_for_each_vec (whole bvec)

IMO, either vec or chunk should be fine, but one thing is that
there isn't obvious difference between segment and vec/chunk,
especially the difference is much less obvious than between page
and vec/chunk/segment.

That is why I tried to suggest to introduce bio_for_each_page_*
before.

Thanks,
Ming