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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iov: introduce ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:07:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201209130723.GL3579531@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209083645.GB21968@infradead.org>

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 08:36:45AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> This is making the iter type even more of a mess than it already is.
> I think we at least need placeholders for 0/1 here and an explicit
> flags namespace, preferably after the types.
> 
> Then again I'd much prefer if we didn't even add the flag or at best
> just add it for a short-term transition and move everyone over to the
> new scheme.  Otherwise the amount of different interfaces and supporting
> code keeps exploding.

Yes.  The only problem I see is how to describe the rules - "bdev-backed
iterators need the bvec array to stay allocated until IO completes"?
And one way or another, that needs to be documented - D/f/porting with
"mandatory" for priority.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-09 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-09  2:19 [RFC 0/2] nocopy bvec for direct IO Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09  2:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] iov: introduce ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09  8:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09  9:06     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 11:54       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09 13:07     ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-12-09 13:37       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09 17:55         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 18:24           ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-13 22:09             ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09  2:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: no-copy bvec for direct IO Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09  8:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 12:01     ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09 12:05       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 12:03         ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-11 14:06     ` Johannes Weiner
2020-12-11 14:20       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-11 15:38         ` Johannes Weiner
2020-12-11 15:47           ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-11 16:13             ` Johannes Weiner
2020-12-09 21:13   ` David Laight
2020-12-09  6:50 ` [RFC 0/2] nocopy " Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 11:54   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09 16:53 ` Jens Axboe
2020-12-13 22:03   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-12-09 17:06 ` Al Viro

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