Re: [PATCH V11 02/19] block: introduce multi-page bvec helpers

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Nov 21 2018 - 11:08:16 EST


On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 11:06:11PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> bvec_iter_* is used for single-page bvec in current linus tree, and there are
> lots of users now:
>
> [linux]$ git grep -n "bvec_iter_*" ./ | wc
> 191 995 13242
>
> If we have to switch it first, it can be a big change, just wondering if Jens
> is happy with that?

Your above grep statement seems to catch every use of struct bvec_iter,
due to the *.

Most uses of bvec_iter_ are either in the block headers, or are
ceph wrappers that match the above and can easily be redefined.