Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] no-copy bvec

Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-15T11:18:51Z

On 15/12/2020 01:41, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:20:19AM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> Instead of creating a full copy of iter->bvec into bio in direct I/O,
>> the patchset makes use of the one provided. It changes semantics and
>> obliges users of asynchronous kiocb to track bvec lifetime, and [1/6]
>> converts the only place that doesn't.
>
> Just think of one corner case: iov_iter(BVEC) may pass bvec table with zero
> length bvec, which may not be supported by block layer or driver, so
> this patchset has to address this case first.

The easiest for me would be to fallback to copy if there are zero bvecs,
e.g. finding such during iov_iter_alignment(), but do we know from where
zero bvecs can came? As it's internals we may want to forbid them if
there is not too much hassle.

>
> Please see 7e24969022cb ("block: allow for_each_bvec to support zero len bvec").

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Pavel Begunkov