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>
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt
index 74a32ad..2568958 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
normal code doesn't have to deal with bi_bvec_done.
* Driver code should no longer refer to biovecs directly; we now have
- bio_iovec() and bio_iovec_iter() macros that return literal struct biovecs,
+ bio_iovec() and bio_iter_iovec() macros that return literal struct biovecs,
constructed from the raw biovecs but taking into account bi_bvec_done and
bi_size.
@@ -109,3 +109,11 @@
over all the biovecs in the new bio - which is silly as it's not needed.
So, don't use bi_vcnt anymore.
+
+ * The current interface allows the block layer to split bios as needed, so we
+ could eliminate a lot of complexity particularly in stacked drivers. Code
+ that creates bios can then create whatever size bios are convenient, and
+ more importantly stacked drivers don't have to deal with both their own bio
+ size limitations and the limitations of the underlying devices. Thus
+ there's no need to define ->merge_bvec_fn() callbacks for individual block
+ drivers.