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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v3 5/9] vhost/scsi: Add ANY_LAYOUT vhost_virtqueue
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:22:20 +0100
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> +		 * copy_from_iter() is modifying the iovecs as copies over
> +		 * req_size bytes into req, so the returned out_iter.iov[0]
> +		 * will contain the correct start + offset of the outgoing
> +		 * WRITE payload, if DMA_TO_DEVICE is set.
> +		 */

Does it, in fact, do this?
I thought so too, but Al Viro corrected me that it's
not supposed to.

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MST