Re: [PATCH 09/44] new iov_iter flavour - ITER_UBUF

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 02:47:03PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
 
> The code looks reasonable but is there any real benefit here? It seems
> like the only user of it so far is new_sync_{read,write}, and both seem
> to just use it to avoid allocating a single iovec on the stack.

Not really - for one thing, it's less overhead in data-copying primitives,
for another... Jens had plans for it as well.  It's not as simple as "just
use it whenever you are asked for a single-segment iovec", but...



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