Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:51:06 +0100 | From | Christian Brauner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v19 09/15] iov_iter: Kill ITER_PIPE |
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 04:35:43PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > The ITER_PIPE-type iterator was only used for generic_file_splice_read(), > but that has now been switched to either pull pages directly from the > pagecache for buffered file splice-reads or to use ITER_BVEC instead for > O_DIRECT file splice-reads. This leaves ITER_PIPE unused - so remove it. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> > cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> > cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> > cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> > cc: linux-mm@kvack.org > cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org > cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org > ---
That is a good simplification, Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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