From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iov: introduce ITER_BVEC_FLAG_FIXED
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:07:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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.
next prev 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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