On 2/14/23 3:56 PM, David Howells wrote: > Hi Jens, > > If you decide not to take my patches in this merge window, would you have any > objection to my patches 1-3 and 10-11 in this series going through Steve > French's cifs tree so that he can take my cifs iteratorisation patches? > > Patches 1-3 would add filemap_splice_read() and direct_splice_read(), but not > connect them up to anything and 10-11 would add iov_iter_extract_pages(). I > can then give Steve a patch to make cifs use them as part of my patches for > that. > > This would only affect cifs. See my iov-cifs branch: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=iov-cifs > > for an example of how this would look. Let's update the branch and see how it goes... If there's more fallout, then let's make a fallback plan for the first few. -- Jens Axboe
