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Use a single ITER_XARRAY iterator to describe the portion of a file to be transmitted to the server rather than generating a series of small ITER_BVEC iterators on the fly. This will make it easier to implement AIO in afs. In theory we could maybe use one giant ITER_BVEC, but that means potentially allocating a huge array of bio_vec structs (max 256 per page) when in fact the pagecache already has a structure listing all the relevant pages (radix_tree/xarray) that can be walked over. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-By: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/153685395197.14766.16289516750731233933.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/158861251312.340223.17924900795425422532.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159465828607.1377938.6903132788463419368.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160588535018.3465195.14509994354240338307.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161118152415.1232039.6452879415814850025.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161161048194.2537118.13763612220937637316.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161340411602.1303470.4661108879482218408.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539555629.286939.5241869986617154517.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653811456.2770958.7017388543246759245.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789095005.6155.6789055030327407928.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.