Re: [PATCH 7/7] iov_iter: remove iov_iter_is_aligned
From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-08-04 14:16:42
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On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 10:02:49PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 04:47:36PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:quoted
From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> No more callers. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>You had me up until this last patch. I'm actually making use of iov_iter_is_aligned() in a series of changes for both NFS and NFSD. Chuck has included some of the NFSD changes in his nfsd-testing branch, see: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git/commit/?h=nfsd-testing&id=5d78ac1e674b45f9c9e3769b48efb27c44f4e4d3 And the balance of my work that is pending review/inclusion is: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20250731230633.89983-1-snitzer@kernel.org/ (local) https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20250801171049.94235-1-snitzer@kernel.org/ (local) I only need iov_iter_aligned_bvec, but recall I want to relax its checking with this patch: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20250708160619.64800-5-snitzer@kernel.org/ (local) Should I just add iov_iter_aligned_bvec() to fs/nfs_common/ so that both NFS and NFSD can use it?
If at all possible, I recommend finding a place that already walks the vectors and do an opprotunistic check for the alignments there. This will save CPU cycles. For example, nfsd_iter_read already iterates the bvec while setting each page. Could you check the alignment while doing that instead of iterating a second time immediately after?