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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] RDMA/core: add bio_vec based RDMA read/write API
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 09:14:36AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > 
> > I'd much rather have the callers pass in the bvec_iter, as that's
> > more useful.
> 
> "The callers" -- Can you clarify whether you mean that the API
> consumers would pass in a bvec_iter, or whether the iter is
> entirely internal to rw.c ?

I mean passing the iter from the API consumer into rw.c.  In general
that is the sanes way to deal with a collection of bvecs.