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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCHSET] reduce messing with iovecs in cifs
Reviewed-by: Steve French <steve.french@primarydata.com>

Let me know if you want any of them to go in via the cifs tree or
prefer going in through your tree (other than patch 1 which could go
in the net-next tree are you indicated)

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> Now that sendmsg/recvmsg do not mangle iovecs and are capable of
> handling bvec-based ->msg_iter, we can seriously reduce the amount of PITA
> in cifs. The series below is completely untested, and I would appreciate
> comments/review/testing/etc.
>
> I'll post the individual patches in followups; for those who prefer to use
> git it can be found in
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git sendmsg.cifs
>
> 1/6: [net] drop 'size' argument of sock_recvmsg()
> should go via net-next; does what it says.
>
> 2/6: cifs: merge the hash calculation helpers
> takes the common parts of {cifs,smb2,smb3}_calc_signature() into a
> common helper.
>
> 3/6: cifs: quit playing games with draining iovecs
> Switch smb_send_kvec() to passing msghdr (and thus iov_iter) and
> make it use sock_sendmsg() - that allows to avoid draining iovecs, since
> ->msg_iter will be advanced properly and all we need is to keep it around
> between the calls of sock_sendmsg(), rather than reinitializing it on each
> loop iteration. The same thing allows to get rid of messing with kmap()
> when sending the stuff in ->rq_pages[] - ITER_BVEC will do the right thing.
>
> 4/6: cifs: no need to wank with copying and advancing iovec on recvmsg side either
> Similar to the previous - use sock_recvmsg() in cifs_readv_from_socket()
> and there's no need to modify iovecs, or allocate a copy especially for
> such modifications, etc.
>
> 5/6: cifs_readv_receive: use cifs_read_from_socket()
> building a 1-element iovec array for cifs_readv_from_socket() is
> an overkill - simple cifs_read_from_socket() will do just fine.
>
> 6/6: cifs: don't bother with kmap on read_pages side
> Similar to the other half of 3/6: we can use ITER_BVEC for
> read-into-page case. Just make cifs_readv_from_socket() take msghdr from
> caller and use a helper that would feed it a bvec-backed ->msg_iter.
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Thanks,

Steve

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