[PATCH v20 02/12] Add infrastructure for copy offload in block and request layer.

[Bart Van Assche]

On 5/31/24 03:17, Nitesh Shetty wrote:
> I see the following challenges with bio-chained approach.
> 1. partitioned device:
>      We need to add the code which iterates over all bios and adjusts
>      the sectors offsets.
> 2. dm/stacked device:
>      We need to make major changes in dm, such as allocating cloned
>      bios, IO splits, IO offset mappings. All of which need to
>      iterate over chained BIOs.
> 
> Overall with chained BIOs we need to add a special handling only for copy
> to iterate over chained BIOs and do the same thing which is being done
> for single BIO at present.
> Or am I missing something here ?

Hmm ... aren't chained bios submitted individually? See e.g.
bio_chain_and_submit(). In other words, it shouldn't be necessary to
add any code that iterates over bio chains.

Thanks,

Bart.