* main unit of I/O for the block layer and lower layers (ie drivers)
*/
struct bio {
- sector_t bi_sector;
struct bio *bi_next; /* request queue link */
struct block_device *bi_bdev; /* target device */
unsigned long bi_flags; /* status, command, etc */
unsigned long bi_rw; /* low bits: r/w, high: priority */
unsigned int bi_vcnt; /* how may bio_vec's */
- unsigned int bi_idx; /* current index into bio_vec array */
+ struct bvec_iter bi_iter; /* current index into bio_vec array */
unsigned int bi_size; /* total size in bytes */
unsigned short bi_phys_segments; /* segments after physaddr coalesce*/
- Code that traverses the req list can find all the segments of a bio
by using rq_for_each_segment. This handles the fact that a request
has multiple bios, each of which can have multiple segments.
-- Drivers which can't process a large bio in one shot can use the bi_idx
+- Drivers which can't process a large bio in one shot can use the bi_iter
field to keep track of the next bio_vec entry to process.
(e.g a 1MB bio_vec needs to be handled in max 128kB chunks for IDE)
[TBD: Should preferably also have a bi_voffset and bi_vlen to avoid modifying
nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors fields (based on the corresponding
hard_xxx values and the number of bytes transferred) and updates it on
every transfer that invokes end_that_request_first. It does the same for the
-buffer, bio, bio->bi_idx fields too.
+buffer, bio, bio->bi_iter fields too.
The buffer field is just a virtual address mapping of the current segment
of the i/o buffer in cases where the buffer resides in low-memory. For high