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2019-02-15block: document usage of bio iterator helpersMing Lei1-0/+25
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>
2015-08-13Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized biosDongsu Park1-1/+9
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>
2013-11-23block: Immutable bio vecsKent Overstreet1-0/+111
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