Re: [PATCH V11 03/19] block: introduce bio_for_each_bvec()

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 05:10:25PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:31:36PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > > But while looking over this I wonder why we even need the max_seg_len
> > > here.  The only thing __bvec_iter_advance does it to move bi_bvec_done
> > > and bi_idx forward, with corresponding decrements of bi_size.  As far
> > > as I can tell the only thing that max_seg_len does is that we need
> > > to more iterations of the while loop to archive the same thing.
> > > 
> > > And actual bvec used by the caller will be obtained using
> > > bvec_iter_bvec or segment_iter_bvec depending on if they want multi-page
> > > or single-page variants.
> > 
> > Right, we let __bvec_iter_advance() serve for both multi-page and single-page
> > case, then we have to tell it via one way or another, now we use the constant
> > of 'max_seg_len'.
> > 
> > Or you suggest to implement two versions of __bvec_iter_advance()?
> 
> No - I think we can always use the code without any segment in
> bvec_iter_advance.  Because bvec_iter_advance only operates on the
> iteractor, the generation of an actual single-page or multi-page
> bvec is left to the caller using the bvec_iter_bvec or segment_iter_bvec
> helpers.  The only difference is how many bytes you can move the
> iterator forward in a single loop iteration - so if you pass in
> PAGE_SIZE as the max_seg_len you just will have to loop more often
> for a large enough bytes, but not actually do anything different.

Yeah, I see that.

The difference is made by bio_iter_iovec()/bio_iter_mp_iovec() in
__bio_for_each_segment()/__bio_for_each_bvec().


Thanks,
Ming