On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:38:45PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > > BTRFS is the only user of this helper, so move this helper into > > BTRFS, and implement it via bio_for_each_segment_all(), since > > bio->bi_vcnt may not equal to number of pages after multipage bvec > > is enabled. > > btrfs only uses the value to check if it is larger than 1. No amount > of multipage bio merging should ever make bi_vcnt go from 0 to 1 or > vice versa.
Could you explain a bit why? Suppose 2 physically continuous pages are added to this bio, .bi_vcnt can be 1 in case of multi-page bvec, but it is 2 in case of single-page bvec. Thanks, Ming
