DIO to/from KVEC-type iterators should now work as the iterator is passed
down to the socket in non-RDMA/non-crypto mode and in RDMA or crypto mode
care is taken to handle vmap/vmalloc correctly and not take page refs when
building a scatterlist.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/cifs/file.c | 20 --------------------
1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index 60949fc352ed..6969699632dc 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -3549,16 +3549,6 @@ static ssize_t __cifs_writev(
struct cifs_aio_ctx *ctx;
int rc;
- /*
- * iov_iter_get_pages_alloc doesn't work with ITER_KVEC.
- * In this case, fall back to non-direct write function.
- * this could be improved by getting pages directly in ITER_KVEC
- */
- if (direct && iov_iter_is_kvec(from)) {
- cifs_dbg(FYI, "use non-direct cifs_writev for kvec I/O\n");
- direct = false;
- }
-
rc = generic_write_checks(iocb, from);
if (rc <= 0)
return rc;
@@ -4092,16 +4082,6 @@ static ssize_t __cifs_readv(
loff_t offset = iocb->ki_pos;
struct cifs_aio_ctx *ctx;
- /*
- * iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() doesn't work with ITER_KVEC,
- * fall back to data copy read path
- * this could be improved by getting pages directly in ITER_KVEC
- */
- if (direct && iov_iter_is_kvec(to)) {
- cifs_dbg(FYI, "use non-direct cifs_user_readv for kvec I/O\n");
- direct = false;
- }
-
len = iov_iter_count(to);
if (!len)
return 0;
