From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] iov_iter: Use IOCB/IOMAP_WRITE if available rather than iterator direction
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 21:30:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8Dsd5ZvkXHxCdxr@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y8BFVgdGYNQqK3sB@ZenIV>
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 05:37:26PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> I have no problem with getting rid of iov_iter_rw(), but I would really like to
> keep ->data_source. If nothing else, any place getting direction wrong is
> a trouble waiting to happen - something that is currently dealing only with
> iovec and bvec might be given e.g. a pipe.
But the calling code knows the direction, in fact it is generally
encoded in the actual operation we do on the iov_iter. The only
exception is iov_iter_get_pages and friends. So I'd much rather pass
make the lass operation that does not explicitly encode a direction
explicit rather than carrying this duplicate information.
The direction of the iov_iter has been a major source of confusing,
and getting rid of it removes that confusion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-13 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-11 14:27 [PATCH v5 0/9] iov_iter: Add extraction helpers David Howells
2023-01-11 14:27 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] iov_iter: Change the direction macros into an enum David Howells
2023-01-11 14:27 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] iov_iter: Use the direction in the iterator functions David Howells
2023-01-11 14:27 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] iov_iter: Use IOCB/IOMAP_WRITE if available rather than iterator direction David Howells
2023-01-12 7:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 10:31 ` David Howells
2023-01-12 14:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 17:37 ` Al Viro
2023-01-12 21:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2023-01-13 5:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-14 1:33 ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-01-14 1:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2023-01-14 1:58 ` Al Viro
2023-01-13 5:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-01-12 21:56 ` Al Viro
2023-01-13 5:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator David Howells
2023-01-12 7:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 21:15 ` Al Viro
2023-01-12 21:36 ` Al Viro
2023-01-13 5:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator David Howells
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist David Howells
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] bio: Rename BIO_NO_PAGE_REF to BIO_PAGE_REFFED and invert the meaning David Howells
2023-01-12 7:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] iov_iter, block: Make bio structs pin pages rather than ref'ing if appropriate David Howells
2023-01-12 7:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 10:28 ` David Howells
2023-01-12 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-12 14:58 ` David Howells
2023-01-12 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-11 14:28 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] bio: Fix bio_flagged() so that it can be combined David Howells
2023-01-12 7:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
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