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

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Feb 15 2023 - 10:44:10 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And who is using filemap_splice_read directly anyway? I can't find a
> modular user in any of the branches.

Fair point. I have a subset of the patches on my iov-cifs branch that doesn't
make the change to generic_file_read_splice(), but rather does that bit in
cifs.ko - that does require access to filemap_splice_read().

David