From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] iov_iter: Use IOCB/IOMAP_WRITE if available rather than iterator direction
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:31:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15330.1673519461@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y7+8r1IYQS3sbbVz@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > This allows all but three of the users of iov_iter_rw() to be got rid of: a
> > consistency check and a warning statement in cifs
>
> Let's just drop these two.
>
> > and one user in the block
> > layer that has neither available.
>
> And use the information in the request for this one (see patch below),
> and then move this patch first in the series, add an explicit direction
> parameter in the gup_flags to the get/pin helper and drop iov_iter_rw
> and the whole confusing source/dest information in the iov_iter entirely,
> which is a really nice big tree wide cleanup that remove redundant
> information.
Fine by me, but Al might object as I think he wanted the internal checks. Al?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-12 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-11 14:27 [PATCH v5 0/9] iov_iter: Add extraction helpers David Howells
2023-01-11 14:27 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] iov_iter: Change the direction macros into an enum David Howells
2023-01-11 14:27 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] iov_iter: Use the direction in the iterator functions David Howells
2023-01-11 14:27 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] iov_iter: Use IOCB/IOMAP_WRITE if available rather than iterator direction David Howells
2023-01-12 7:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 10:31 ` David Howells [this message]
2023-01-12 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 17:37 ` Al Viro
2023-01-12 21:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2023-01-13 5:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-14 1:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-01-14 1:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-01-14 1:58 ` Al Viro
2023-01-13 5:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 21:56 ` Al Viro
2023-01-13 5:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator David Howells
2023-01-12 7:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 21:15 ` Al Viro
2023-01-12 21:36 ` Al Viro
2023-01-13 5:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator David Howells
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist David Howells
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] bio: Rename BIO_NO_PAGE_REF to BIO_PAGE_REFFED and invert the meaning David Howells
2023-01-12 7:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] iov_iter, block: Make bio structs pin pages rather than ref'ing if appropriate David Howells
2023-01-12 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 10:28 ` David Howells
2023-01-12 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 14:58 ` David Howells
2023-01-12 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] bio: Fix bio_flagged() so that it can be combined David Howells
2023-01-12 7:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
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