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To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH V5 00/33] block: support multipage bvec
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On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 07:44:52PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Yes, we discussed exactly this, which is why I'm surprised you went
> ahead with the same approach. I told you I don't like tree wide renames,
> if they can be avoided. I'd rather suffer some pain wrt page vs segments
> naming, and then later do a rename (if it bothers us) once the dust has
> settled on the interesting part of the changes.
> 
> I'm very well away of our current naming and what it signifies.  With
> #1, you are really splitting hairs, imho. Find a decent name for
> multiple segment. Chunk?

vec?

bio_for_each_segment (page)
bio_for_each_vec (whole bvec)