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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] block: loop: use vfs ITER_BVEC to read/write backing file
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:31:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324103148.GC7002@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427012095-4095-4-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com>

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:14:54PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Now loop code gets simplified a lot, and becomes more clean.
> 
> Also one extra page copy is avoided for READ in case of none
> transfer.

I really don't like the mess with the wrappers to pretent that read/write
work the same, and the ibvec_rw_data structure doesn't exactly help
readability either.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-22  8:14 [PATCH 0/3] block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC Ming Lei
2015-03-22  8:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: loop: use kmap(page) instead of page_address(page) Ming Lei
2015-03-24 10:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-24 10:49     ` Ming Lei
2015-03-24 11:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-24 11:24         ` Ming Lei
2015-03-22  8:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] block: loop: unify interface type of lo_send and lo_receive Ming Lei
2015-03-24 10:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-24 10:55     ` Ming Lei
2015-03-22  8:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] block: loop: use vfs ITER_BVEC to read/write backing file Ming Lei
2015-03-24 10:31   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-03-24 11:01     ` Ming Lei
2015-03-24 10:32 ` [PATCH 0/3] block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-24 10:53   ` Ming Lei
2015-03-24 18:01     ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25  7:23       ` Ming Lei
2015-03-25 15:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-31 22:22           ` Al Viro
2015-04-04  5:20           ` Al Viro
2015-04-07 16:23             ` Christoph Hellwig

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