From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: fs: Use non-const iov in aio_read/aio_write
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 00:21:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141103002139.GW7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141103001634.GV7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 12:16:34AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> NAK with extreme prejudice. The right way to deal with that is
> to convert the socket side of things to iov_iter. And give it a
> consistent behaviour, while we are at it (some protocols do advance
> the damn thing, so do not). There are _very_ good reasons to have those
> iovecs unchanged - if you look at the callers on the socket side, you'll
> see a bunch that has to _copy_ iovec just to avoid it being buggered.
> And you get rather suboptimal behaviour in memcpy_fromiovec() and friends,
> exactly because you have to skip through the emptied elements.
>
> IOW, no way in hell.
PS: I do have the beginning of that stuff sitting in the local queue since
April; see http://marc.info/?l=linux-xfs&m=139179304710494&w=2 for the
beginning of the story.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-03 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-02 23:05 fs: Use non-const iov in aio_read/aio_write Herbert Xu
2014-11-03 0:16 ` Al Viro
2014-11-03 0:21 ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-11-03 0:22 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-03 0:45 ` Al Viro
2014-11-03 5:37 ` [0/3] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec Herbert Xu
2014-11-03 5:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] tun: Modify const aio_read iovec per do_sock_read Herbert Xu
2014-11-03 5:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec Herbert Xu
2014-11-03 5:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] macvtap: Modify const aio_read iovec per do_sock_read Herbert Xu
2014-11-03 20:05 ` [0/3] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec David Miller
2014-11-04 3:38 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 8:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] inet: Add skb_copy_datagram_iter Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 14:32 ` Al Viro
2014-11-04 14:35 ` Al Viro
2014-11-04 14:44 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 14:52 ` Al Viro
2014-11-04 14:55 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 14:42 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 15:13 ` Al Viro
2014-11-05 2:22 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-05 3:27 ` David Miller
2014-11-05 3:55 ` Al Viro
2014-11-05 4:12 ` Al Viro
2014-11-05 20:51 ` David Miller
2014-11-05 20:50 ` David Miller
2014-11-05 21:07 ` Al Viro
2014-11-05 21:57 ` David Miller
2014-11-06 3:25 ` Al Viro
2014-11-06 5:50 ` ipv4: Use standard iovec primitive in raw_probe_proto_opt Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 6:43 ` Al Viro
2014-11-06 6:46 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 7:11 ` Al Viro
2014-11-06 9:55 ` Jon Maloy
2014-11-06 22:16 ` Al Viro
2014-11-28 5:14 ` Al Viro
2014-11-06 21:28 ` David Miller
2014-11-07 2:00 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 13:25 ` [PATCH 0/2] ipv4: Simplify raw_probe_proto_opt and avoid reading user iov twice Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] ipv4: Use standard iovec primitive in raw_probe_proto_opt Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Avoid reading user iov twice after raw_probe_proto_opt Herbert Xu
2014-11-10 19:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] ipv4: Simplify raw_probe_proto_opt and avoid reading user iov twice David Miller
2014-11-06 9:50 ` [PATCH 1/4] inet: Add skb_copy_datagram_iter Jon Maloy
2014-11-07 21:48 ` David Miller
2014-11-07 22:11 ` Al Viro
2014-11-07 22:31 ` Al Viro
2014-11-07 22:35 ` Al Viro
2014-11-07 23:42 ` Al Viro
2014-11-08 2:21 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-09 21:19 ` Al Viro
2014-11-10 5:20 ` David Miller
2014-11-10 6:58 ` Al Viro
2014-11-10 7:30 ` David Miller
2014-11-10 9:09 ` Al Viro
2014-11-10 16:18 ` David Miller
2014-11-10 10:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-07 21:52 ` David Miller
2014-11-05 20:24 ` David Miller
2014-11-06 8:23 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 17:25 ` David Miller
2014-11-07 1:59 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 3:13 ` David Miller
2014-11-07 13:21 ` [PATCH 0/4] Replace skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec with iterator version Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 13:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] inet: Add skb_copy_datagram_iter Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 13:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] tun: Use iovec iterators Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 13:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] macvtap: " Herbert Xu
2014-11-07 13:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 8:27 ` [PATCH 0/4] Replace skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec with iterator version Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 8:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] inet: Add skb_copy_datagram_iter Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 17:30 ` Al Viro
2014-11-07 1:58 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 8:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] tun: Use iovec iterators Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 8:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] macvtap: " Herbert Xu
2014-11-06 17:33 ` Al Viro
2014-11-06 8:28 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 8:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] tun: Use iovec iterators Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 8:37 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-05 2:49 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2014-11-05 3:41 ` Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 8:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 8:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] macvtap: Use iovec iterators Herbert Xu
2014-11-04 5:45 ` [0/3] net: Kill skb_copy_datagram_const_iovec Al Viro
2014-11-05 1:53 ` Al Viro
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