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SubjectRe: [PATCH 45/60] block: bio: introduce bio_for_each_segment_all_rd() and its write pair
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 04:08:44PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>> This patches introduce bio_for_each_segment_all_rd() and
>> bio_for_each_segment_all_wt().
>>
>> bio_for_each_segment_all_rd() is for replacing
>> bio_for_each_segment_all() in case the bvec from bio->bi_io_vec
>> is accessed as readonly.
>>
>> bio_for_each_segment_all_wt() is for replacing
>> bio_for_each_segment_all() in case the bvec from bio->bi_io_vec
>> need to be updated.
>
> What is _rd and _wt supposed to stand for? And speaking more

As Christoph replied, _rd means read, which said the bvec pointed by
the iterator variable(bvec pointer) is read-only, and the bvec table
can't be written into via this usage any more. Maybe
bio_for_each_segment_all_ro is better?

On the other hand, _wr meands write, which said the bvec pointed by
the iterator variable(bvec pointer) can be written to. Maybe we can use
original bio_for_each_segment_all() for it?

> generally, could you write up some more detailed notes about all of
> the various new functions they have been added, when they should be
> used, and some kind of roadmap about how things are supposed to work
> beyond the very high-level description in the introduction in your
> patch series? Ideally it would go into the Documentation directory,
> so that after this patch set gets applied, people will be able to
> refer to it to understand how things are supposed to work.

In the next post, I will add comment on the two helpers, thanks for
your review.

Thanks,
Ming

>
> Thanks!!
>
> - Ted



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Ming Lei

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