From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, jlayton@redhat.com, smfrench@gmail.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] iov_iter: Add extraction functions
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 13:22:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1366586.1665750147@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yy5pzHiQ4GRCOoXV@ZenIV>
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> How is it better than "iov_iter_get_pages2() into a fixed-sized
> array and handle the result" done in a loop?
I did that first - and you objected on the basis that I shouldn't be taking
page refs if it's not necessary, and under some circumstances some of the
pages pointed to by the iterator might not be something that I should attempt
to take a ref on.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-14 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-09 23:18 [RFC][PATCH] iov_iter: Add extraction functions David Howells
2022-09-10 12:16 ` kernel test robot
2022-09-24 2:22 ` Al Viro
2022-10-14 12:22 ` David Howells [this message]
2022-10-18 14:29 ` David Howells
2022-10-18 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2022-09-11 8:49 kernel test robot
2022-09-13 9:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-09-12 0:44 kernel test robot
2022-09-12 14:57 kernel test robot
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