By Jake Edge  May 4, 2016, LSFMM 2016

• Multipage bio_vecs
• block: prepare for multipage bvecs

In the block layer, larger I/O operations tend to be more efficient, but current kernels limit how large those operations can be. The bio_vec structure, which describes the buffer for an I/O operation …

By Neil Brown  October 25, 2017, lwn.net

• A block layer introduction part 1: the bio layer
• [PATCH] block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index
• [PATCH] blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request()
• [PATCH] block: initial patch for on-stack per-task plugging
• [PATCH] block: provide a direct_make_request …