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[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / Documentation / block / biodoc.txt

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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
        =====================================================
 
 Notes Written on Jan 15, 2002:
-       Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
+       Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
        Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
 
 Last Updated May 2, 2002
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Credits:
 ---------
 
 2.5 bio rewrite:
-       Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
+       Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
 
 Many aspects of the generic block layer redesign were driven by and evolved
 over discussions, prior patches and the collective experience of several
@@ -477,9 +477,9 @@ With this multipage bio design:
   the same bi_io_vec array, but with the index and size accordingly modified)
 - A linked list of bios is used as before for unrelated merges (*) - this
   avoids reallocs and makes independent completions easier to handle.
-- Code that traverses the req list needs to make a distinction between
-  segments of a request (bio_for_each_segment) and the distinct completion
-  units/bios (rq_for_each_bio).
+- 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
   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)
@@ -664,14 +664,14 @@ in lvm or md.
 
 3.2.1 Traversing segments and completion units in a request
 
-The macros bio_for_each_segment() and rq_for_each_bio() should be used for
-traversing the bios in the request list (drivers should avoid directly
-trying to do it themselves). Using these helpers should also make it easier
-to cope with block changes in the future.
+The macro rq_for_each_segment() should be used for traversing the bios
+in the request list (drivers should avoid directly trying to do it
+themselves). Using these helpers should also make it easier to cope
+with block changes in the future.
 
-       rq_for_each_bio(bio, rq)
-               bio_for_each_segment(bio_vec, bio, i)
-                       /* bio_vec is now current segment */
+       struct req_iterator iter;
+       rq_for_each_segment(bio_vec, rq, iter)
+               /* bio_vec is now current segment */
 
 I/O completion callbacks are per-bio rather than per-segment, so drivers
 that traverse bio chains on completion need to keep that in mind. Drivers
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ lock themselves, if required. Drivers that explicitly used the
 io_request_lock for serialization need to be modified accordingly.
 Usually it's as easy as adding a global lock:
 
-       static spinlock_t my_driver_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
+       static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(my_driver_lock);
 
 and passing the address to that lock to blk_init_queue().