Re: [PATCH v14 00/17] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just list)

[Jens Axboe]

On 2/14/23 3:56 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> If you decide not to take my patches in this merge window, would you have any
> objection to my patches 1-3 and 10-11 in this series going through Steve
> French's cifs tree so that he can take my cifs iteratorisation patches?
> 
> Patches 1-3 would add filemap_splice_read() and direct_splice_read(), but not
> connect them up to anything and 10-11 would add iov_iter_extract_pages().  I
> can then give Steve a patch to make cifs use them as part of my patches for
> that.
> 
> This would only affect cifs.  See my iov-cifs branch:
> 
> 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=iov-cifs
> 
> for an example of how this would look.

Let's update the branch and see how it goes... If there's more fallout, then
let's make a fallback plan for the first few.

-- 
Jens Axboe