3 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Ming Lei	ac4fa1d107	block: document usage of bio iterator helpers ... Now multi-page bvec is supported, some helpers may return page by page, meantime some may return segment by segment, this patch documents the usage. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>	2019-02-15 08:40:12 -07:00
Dongsu Park	2ec3182f9c	Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios ... Update block/biovecs.txt so that it includes a note on what kind of effects arbitrarily sized bios would bring to the block layer. Also fix a trivial typo, bio_iter_iovec. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>	2015-08-13 12:32:07 -06:00
Kent Overstreet	4550dd6c6b	block: Immutable bio vecs ... This adds a mechanism by which we can advance a bio by an arbitrary number of bytes without modifying the biovec: bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done indicates the number of bytes completed in the current bvec. Various driver code still needs to be updated to not refer to the bvec directly before we can use this for interesting things, like efficient bio splitting. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com> Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com> Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net	2013-11-23 22:33:49 -08:00