Bloom Filters - is the blockchain filtered block by block?

Question

I understand that bloom filters are used to quickly scan for log topics and corresponding contract addresses. I also understand that an 2048-bit bloom filter is stored in the block header.

Question: If I have a filter looking for a specific log topic value from block 0 to the latest block: how does the node search for this? Will it iterate over the bloom filters block by block starting by block 0? Or, is there a hierarchy of bloom filters (mipmaps?) so that multiple blocks can be filtered at once? Bonus for pointing to geth code location where this is implemented.

Answer 1

Finally got an answer to this.

The bloom filters are checked block by block. So if you call eth_getLogs with from:0 every header is checked.

Code location in the geth code.

See also this issue.