On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 11:21:28PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This is going entirely in the wrong direction. We don't need more iter > types but less. The reason why we have to many is because the underlying > representation of the ranges is a mess which goes deeper than just the > iterator, because it also means we have to convert between the > underlying representations all the time. > > E.g. the socket code should have (and either has for a while or at least > there were patches) been using bio_vecs instead of reinventing them as sk > fragment. The crypto code should not be using scatterlists, which are a I did this work six years ago -- see 8842d285bafa Unfortunately, networking is full of inconsiderate arseholes who backed it out without even talking to me in 21d2e6737c97
