Messages in this thread | | | From | Ming Lei <> | Date | Tue, 1 Nov 2016 06:50:04 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 45/60] block: bio: introduce bio_for_each_segment_all_rd() and its write pair |
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 09:59:43AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> What is _rd and _wt supposed to stand for? > > I think it's read and write, but I think the naming is highly > unfortunate. I started dabbling around with the patches a bit, > and to keep my sanity a started reaming it to _pages and _bvec > which is the real semantics - the _rd or _pages gives you a synthetic > bvec for each page, and the other one gives you the full bvec.
Looks _pages & _bvec is better and still a little confusing and not reflect its real purpose from user view, since both points to real bvec. Could we just rename _rd as bio_for_each_segment_all_ro() which means the pointed bvec is readonly and not introduce _wt?
Thanks, Ming Lei
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