David Laight [off-list ref] wrote:

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Some measurements can be made using readv() and writev()
on /dev/zero and /dev/null.

Forget /dev/null; that doesn't actually engage any iteration code.  The same
for writing to /dev/zero.  Reading from /dev/zero does its own iteration thing
rather than using iterate_and_advance(), presumably because it checks for
signals and resched.

Using /dev/null does exercise the 'copy iov from user' code.

Ummm....  Not really:

static ssize_t read_null(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
			 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
	return 0;
}

static ssize_t write_null(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
			  size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
	return count;
}

static ssize_t read_iter_null(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
{
	return 0;
}

static ssize_t write_iter_null(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
{
	size_t count = iov_iter_count(from);
	iov_iter_advance(from, count);
	return count;
}

David