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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@profitbricks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>, Ming Lin <mlin@minggr.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/17] block: refactor __bio_copy_iov()
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 02:45:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141223104551.GC27600@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b6ba533a64aec98e8447bfd30c6622d0729d12e.1419241597.git.dongsu.park@profitbricks.com>

>  static int __bio_copy_iov(struct bio *bio, const struct iov_iter *iter,
> +			  int to_iov)
>  {
> +	int i;
>  	struct bio_vec *bvec;
>  	struct iov_iter iov_iter = *iter;

Why not pass the iov_iter by value?

>  	bio_for_each_segment_all(bvec, bio, i) {
> +		ssize_t ret;
> +
> +		if (to_iov == WRITE)
> +			ret = copy_page_to_iter(bvec->bv_page,
> +						bvec->bv_offset,
> +						bvec->bv_len,
> +						&iov_iter);
> +		else
> +			ret = copy_page_from_iter(bvec->bv_page,
> +						  bvec->bv_offset,
> +						  bvec->bv_len,
> +						  &iov_iter);
> +
> +		if (!iov_iter_count(&iov_iter))
> +			break;
>  
> +		if (ret < bvec->bv_len)
> +			return -EFAULT;
>  	}
>  
> +	return 0;

Seems like this should be split into two functions for the read
and write cases?


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-23 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-22 11:48 [RFC PATCH 00/17] simplify block layer based on immutable biovecs Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 11:41     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-27 15:02       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 19:14   ` Geoff Levand
2014-12-24 10:37     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-25  6:09   ` Ming Lei
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] block: simplify bio_add_page() Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 11:46     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] block: simplify issueing discard, write_same, zeroout Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] bcache: clean up hacks around bio_split_pool Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls Dongsu Park
     [not found]   ` <e4b7b017eaa81784889ebb2a4e6a7d4366adf13a.1419241597.git.dongsu.park@profit bricks.com>
2014-12-23 14:44     ` Chris Mason
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] btrfs: make use of immutable biovecs Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 12:09     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] block: replace sg_iovec with iov_iter Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 12:18     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-27 15:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] block: refactor __bio_copy_iov() Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:45   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-12-23 12:24     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] block: refactor iov_count_pages() from bio_{copy,map}_user_iov() Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] block: refactor bio_get_user_pages() from __bio_map_user_iov() Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] block: allow __blk_queue_bounce() to handle bios larger than BIO_MAX_PAGES Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] md/raid10: make sync_request_write() call bio_copy_data() Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 12:31     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev() Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 15:22   ` Dave Kleikamp
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] fs: convert buffer head etc. to use immutable biovecs API Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 12:33     ` Dongsu Park
2014-12-22 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios Dongsu Park
2014-12-23 10:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-23 12:34     ` Dongsu Park

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