Re: [PATCH v1 5/6] bio: add a helper calculating nr segments to alloc

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Mon Dec 14 2020 - 20:11:12 EST


On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:00:23PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:20:24AM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> > A preparation patch. It adds a simple helper which abstracts out number
> > of segments we're allocating for a bio from iov_iter_npages().
>
> Preparation for what? bio_iov_vecs_to_alloc() doesn't seem to be
> used outside this specific patch, so it's not clear what it's
> actually needed for...

Never mind, I'm just blind.

Cheers,

Dave.
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