From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A16DC433F5 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:32:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244223AbiAFVcF (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2022 16:32:05 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.133.124]:51480 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S239110AbiAFVcF (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2022 16:32:05 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1641504724; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OVSngt0Bi4mpL3l3todec873GmIFbib/HFumeLRJuOY=; b=dXtwlRutGni8NgbQoxPOw/Pcm57B2jb7s2JfINBh0iNzpIB9eAmix7o3p+nRcjtIkzV0rG oP/fpWFiyqFv3FPFoxOSY923q3E6AKpWASrvJI4O3VcFkP/DWlDOx0qe83MKQROH1knhKi 3dvM3sARrgoDJBZUAm2SQUgFzcMAxvA= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-116-s4oARPBKNqiyrc8Ta8V65w-1; Thu, 06 Jan 2022 16:32:03 -0500 X-MC-Unique: s4oARPBKNqiyrc8Ta8V65w-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 181B5107B280; Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from warthog.procyon.org.uk (unknown [10.33.36.165]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6083E16A39; Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [RFC][PATCH v2 0/3] cifs: In-progress conversion to use iov_iters instead of page lists From: David Howells To: smfrench@gmail.com Cc: nspmangalore@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, jlayton@kernel.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-cachefs@redhat.com Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 21:31:54 +0000 Message-ID: <164150471440.2994594.16990036181824162931.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> User-Agent: StGit/0.23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.23 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Hi Steve, For your illumination, here's where I'm currently at with making cifs use netfslib more fully. I ended up delving into the realms of converting it to use iov_iter instead of page lists and doing partial foliation. It isn't complete yet and some of the patches don't compile, but if you want a look at what I've been doing... David --- David Howells (3): cifs: Use netfslib cifs: Reverse the way iov_iters are used in reading cifs: Eliminate pages list from cifs_readdata, cifs_writedata and smb_rqst fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 40 +- fs/cifs/cifsfs.h | 3 + fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 28 +- fs/cifs/cifsproto.h | 8 +- fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 219 ++++++--- fs/cifs/file.c | 1041 +++++++++++++---------------------------- fs/cifs/misc.c | 109 ----- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 188 ++++---- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 12 +- fs/cifs/transport.c | 41 +- include/linux/uio.h | 7 + lib/iov_iter.c | 136 ++++++ 12 files changed, 746 insertions(+), 1086 deletions(-)