Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: no-copy bvec for direct IO

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> +	/*
> +	 * In practice groups of pages tend to be accessed/reclaimed/refaulted
> +	 * together. To not go over bvec for those who didn't set BIO_WORKINGSET
> +	 * approximate it by looking at the first page and inducing it to the
> +	 * whole bio
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(PageWorkingset(iter->bvec->bv_page)))
> +		bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_WORKINGSET);

IIRC the feedback was that we do not need to deal with BIO_WORKINGSET
at all for direct I/O.

> +	bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_NO_PAGE_REF);
> +
> +	iter->count = 0;
> +	return 0;
> +}

This helper should go into bio.c, next to bio_iov_iter_get_pages.
And please convert the other callers of bio_iov_iter_get_pages to this
scheme as well.



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