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...