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On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 12:29:16PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It was sent out as a discussion point, it's not a submission and it's by
> no means complete (as mentioned!). If you're working on this, I'd be
> happy to drop it, it's not like I really enjoy the iov_iter code... And
> it sounds like you are?

*snort*

Yes, I am working on it.  As for enjoying that thing...  I'm not fond of
forests of macros, to put it mildly.  Even in the trimmed form it still
stinks, and places like copy_page_to_iter for iovec are still fucking
awful wrt misguided microoptimization attempts - mine, at that, so I've
nobody else to curse ;-/