From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 07:42:53 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ming Lei Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Alexander Viro , Kent Overstreet , David Sterba , Huang Ying , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Theodore Ts'o , "Darrick J . Wong" , Coly Li , Filipe Manana , Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 00/30] block: support multipage bvec Message-ID: <20180613144253.GA4693@infradead.org> References: <20180609123014.8861-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> <20180611164806.GA7452@infradead.org> <20180612034242.GC26412@ming.t460p> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20180612034242.GC26412@ming.t460p> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:42:49AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 09:48:06AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > І think the new naming scheme in this series is a nightmare. It > > confuses the heck out of me, and that is despite knowing many bits of > > the block layer inside out, and reviewing previous series. > > In V5, there isn't such issue, since bio_for_each_segment* is renamed > into bio_for_each_page* first before doing the change. But now we are at V6 where that isn't the case.. > Seems Jens isn't fine with the big renaming, then I follow the suggestion > of taking 'chunk' for representing multipage bvec in V6. Please don't use chunk. We are iterating over bio_vec structures, while we have the concept of a chunk size for something else in the block layer, so this just creates confusion. Nevermind names like bio_for_each_chunk_segment_all which just double the confusion. So assuming that bio_for_each_segment is set to stay as-is for now, here is a proposal for sanity by using the vec name. OLD: bio_for_each_segment NEW(page): bio_for_each_segment, to be renamed bio_for_each_page later NEW(bvec): bio_for_each_bvec OLD: __bio_for_each_segment NEW(page): __bio_for_each_segment, to be renamed __bio_for_each_page later NEW(bvec): (no bvec version needed) OLD: bio_for_each_segment_all NEW(page): bio_for_each_page_all (needs updated prototype anyway) NEW(bvec): (no bvec version needed once bcache is fixed up)