Re: [PATCH v7 01/31] iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY

From: David Howells
Date: Fri Apr 23 2021 - 10:33:31 EST


Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 02:28:01PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Now, is this important? There are no filesystems which do I/O to THPs
> today. So it's not possible to pick up the fact that it doesn't work,
> and I hope to have the page cache fixed soon. And fixing this now
> will create more work later as part of fixing the page cache. But I
> wouldn't feel right not mentioning this problem ...

So I can leave the code as-is for the moment and it can be fixed with your
patches?

David