Re: [PATCH v6 03/16] libs/guest: Reduce number of I/O vectors in write_batch

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

This has the same exact subject as the prior patch.

Either it wants merging, as they're both in the same function, or the
subject wants to be different.  Even a "Further ..." prefix would help.

On 19/06/2026 2:04 pm, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Each page was sent using a different iovec item. This potentially exceed
> Linux maximum (1024).

Linux cannot have a maximum of 1024 because this has been working fine
for a decade using 1028 in the common case.

> Coalesce adjacent IO vector elements to attempt to reduce the number of
> overall IO vectors for each operation.
> Also some implementation (MiniOS) emulate writev with multiple write calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>
> Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>