From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 03/13] overlayfs: Implement splice-read
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:29:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230309092906.GA23816@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2012343.1678291479@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 04:04:39PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 03:54:36PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > > Using do_splice_to() as a helper is probably a good idea, though both Willy
> > > and Christoph seem to dislike it.
> >
> > That's not true. What I'm fundamentlly against is pointless wrappers
> > like the call_* that add no value. do_splice_to adds useful checks,
> > so if properly named and documented, I'm absolutely in favour.
>
> Fair enough. Rename to vfs_splice_read() okay with you?
Yes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-09 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-08 14:37 [PATCH v16 00/13] splice, block: Use page pinning and kill ITER_PIPE David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 01/13] splice: Clean up direct_splice_read() a bit David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 02/13] shmem: Implement splice-read David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 03/13] overlayfs: " David Howells
2023-03-08 15:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2023-03-08 15:54 ` David Howells
2023-03-08 15:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-08 16:04 ` David Howells
2023-03-09 9:29 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 04/13] coda: " David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 05/13] tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use direct_splice_read() David Howells
2023-03-08 14:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 06/13] splice: Do splice read from a file without using ITER_PIPE David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 07/13] iov_iter: Kill ITER_PIPE David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 08/13] iomap: Don't get an reference on ZERO_PAGE for direct I/O block zeroing David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 09/13] block: Fix bio_flagged() so that gcc can better optimise it David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 10/13] block: Replace BIO_NO_PAGE_REF with BIO_PAGE_REFFED with inverted logic David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 11/13] block: Add BIO_PAGE_PINNED and associated infrastructure David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 12/13] block: Convert bio_iov_iter_get_pages to use iov_iter_extract_pages David Howells
2023-03-08 14:37 ` [PATCH v16 13/13] block: convert bio_map_user_iov " David Howells
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