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One of the goals is to reduce the overhead of using ->read_iter()
and ->write_iter() instead of ->read()/->write(); new_sync_{read,write}()
has a surprising amount of overhead, in particular inside iocb_flags().
That's why the beginning of the series is in this pile; it's not directly
iov_iter-related, but it's a part of the same work...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-work.iov_iter-base' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs iov_iter updates from Al Viro:
"Part 1 - isolated cleanups and optimizations.
One of the goals is to reduce the overhead of using ->read_iter() and
->write_iter() instead of ->read()/->write().
new_sync_{read,write}() has a surprising amount of overhead, in
particular inside iocb_flags(). That's the explanation for the
beginning of the series is in this pile; it's not directly
iov_iter-related, but it's a part of the same work..."
* tag 'pull-work.iov_iter-base' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
first_iovec_segment(): just return address
iov_iter: massage calling conventions for first_{iovec,bvec}_segment()
iov_iter: first_{iovec,bvec}_segment() - simplify a bit
iov_iter: lift dealing with maxpages out of first_{iovec,bvec}_segment()
iov_iter_get_pages{,_alloc}(): cap the maxsize with MAX_RW_COUNT
iov_iter_bvec_advance(): don't bother with bvec_iter
copy_page_{to,from}_iter(): switch iovec variants to generic
keep iocb_flags() result cached in struct file
iocb: delay evaluation of IS_SYNC(...) until we want to check IOCB_DSYNC
struct file: use anonymous union member for rcuhead and llist
btrfs: use IOMAP_DIO_NOSYNC
teach iomap_dio_rw() to suppress dsync
No need of likely/unlikely on calls of check_copy_size()
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