Re: [PATCH] block: add bio_iov_iter_nvecs for figuring out nr_vecs

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On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:52:51PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> But the only reason we want to know 'nr_vecs' is so we can allocate a
> BIO which has that many vecs, right?  But we then don't actually use the
> vecs in the bio because we use the ones already present in the iter.
> That was why I had it return 1, not nr_vecs.
> 
> Did I miss something?

Right now __bio_iov_bvec_add_pages does not reuse the bvecs in the
iter.  That being said while we are optmizing this path we might a well
look into reusing them..



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