Re: [PATCH V12 06/20] block: rename bvec helpers

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Nov 26 2018 - 07:55:03 EST


On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:17:06AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> We will support multi-page bvec soon, and have to deal with
> single-page vs multi-page bvec. This patch follows Christoph's
> suggestion to rename all the following helpers:
>
> for_each_bvec
> bvec_iter_bvec
> bvec_iter_len
> bvec_iter_page
> bvec_iter_offset
>
> into:
> for_each_segment
> segment_iter_bvec
> segment_iter_len
> segment_iter_page
> segment_iter_offset
>
> so that these helpers named with 'segment' only deal with single-page
> bvec, or called segment. We will introduce helpers named with 'bvec'
> for multi-page bvec.
>
> bvec_iter_advance() isn't renamed becasue this helper is always operated
> on real bvec even though multi-page bvec is supported.
>
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>