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* [RFC][PATCHSET] reduce messing with iovecs in cifs
@ 2016-04-09 20:43 ` Al Viro
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 31+ messages in thread
From: Al Viro @ 2016-04-09 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA; +Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA

	Now that sendmsg/recvmsg do not mangle iovecs and are capable of
handling bvec-based ->msg_iter, we can seriously reduce the amount of PITA
in cifs.  The series below is completely untested, and I would appreciate
comments/review/testing/etc.

I'll post the individual patches in followups; for those who prefer to use
git it can be found in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git sendmsg.cifs

1/6: [net] drop 'size' argument of sock_recvmsg()
	should go via net-next; does what it says.

2/6: cifs: merge the hash calculation helpers
	takes the common parts of {cifs,smb2,smb3}_calc_signature() into a
common helper.

3/6: cifs: quit playing games with draining iovecs
	Switch smb_send_kvec() to passing msghdr (and thus iov_iter) and
make it use sock_sendmsg() - that allows to avoid draining iovecs, since
->msg_iter will be advanced properly and all we need is to keep it around
between the calls of sock_sendmsg(), rather than reinitializing it on each
loop iteration.  The same thing allows to get rid of messing with kmap()
when sending the stuff in ->rq_pages[] - ITER_BVEC will do the right thing.

4/6: cifs: no need to wank with copying and advancing iovec on recvmsg side either
	Similar to the previous - use sock_recvmsg() in cifs_readv_from_socket()
and there's no need to modify iovecs, or allocate a copy especially for
such modifications, etc.

5/6: cifs_readv_receive: use cifs_read_from_socket()
	building a 1-element iovec array for cifs_readv_from_socket() is
an overkill - simple cifs_read_from_socket() will do just fine.

6/6: cifs: don't bother with kmap on read_pages side
	Similar to the other half of 3/6: we can use ITER_BVEC for
read-into-page case.  Just make cifs_readv_from_socket() take msghdr from
caller and use a helper that would feed it a bvec-backed ->msg_iter.

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2016-04-09 20:43 [RFC][PATCHSET] reduce messing with iovecs in cifs Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:43 ` Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] cifs: merge the hash calculation helpers Al Viro
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2016-04-13  5:07     ` Shirish Pargaonkar
2016-04-13  5:07       ` Shirish Pargaonkar
2016-04-19 16:12   ` Jeff Layton
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2016-04-09 20:50   ` [PATCH 1/6] [net] drop 'size' argument of sock_recvmsg() Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:50     ` Al Viro
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2016-04-19 16:03       ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-19 16:03         ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-09 20:51   ` [PATCH 3/6] cifs: quit playing games with draining iovecs Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:51     ` Al Viro
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2016-04-19 17:53       ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-19 17:53         ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-19 22:41         ` Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:52   ` [PATCH 4/6] cifs: no need to wank with copying and advancing iovec on recvmsg side either Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:52     ` Al Viro
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2016-04-19 17:55       ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-19 17:55         ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-09 20:52   ` [PATCH 5/6] cifs_readv_receive: use cifs_read_from_socket() Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:52     ` Al Viro
     [not found]     ` <20160409205236.GK25498-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-19 15:01       ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-19 15:01         ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-09 20:53   ` [PATCH 6/6] cifs: don't bother with kmap on read_pages side Al Viro
2016-04-09 20:53     ` Al Viro
     [not found]     ` <20160409205304.GL25498-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2016-04-19 18:24       ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-19 18:24         ` Jeff Layton
2016-04-11  2:43   ` [RFC][PATCHSET] reduce messing with iovecs in cifs Shirish Pargaonkar
2016-04-11  2:43     ` Shirish Pargaonkar
2016-04-25  3:22   ` Steve French
2016-04-25  3:22     ` Steve French

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