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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
To: "Alexander V. Buev" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
	Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <[email protected]>,
	Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <[email protected]>,
	Mikhail Malygin <[email protected]>,
	[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] block: bio-integrity: add PI iovec to bio
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 16:38:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 03:20:38PM +0300, Alexander V. Buev wrote:
> Added functions to attach user PI iovec pages to bio and release this
> pages via bio_integrity_free.

Before I get into nitpicking on the nitty gritty details:

what is the reason for pinning down the memory for the iovecs here?
Other interfaces like the nvme passthrough code simply copy from
user assuming that the amount of metadata passed will usually be
rather small, and thus faster doing a copy.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-09 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-09 12:20 [PATCH v4 0/3] implement direct IO with integrity Alexander V. Buev
2022-09-09 12:20 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] block: bio-integrity: add PI iovec to bio Alexander V. Buev
2022-09-09 14:38   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-09-09 16:19     ` Alexander V. Buev
2022-09-09 12:20 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] block: io-uring: add READV_PI/WRITEV_PI operations Alexander V. Buev
2022-09-15 23:22   ` kernel test robot
2022-09-09 12:20 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] block: fops: handle IOCB_USE_PI in direct IO Alexander V. Buev

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