Re: [PATCH v19 09/15] iov_iter: Kill ITER_PIPE

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 04:35:43PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> The ITER_PIPE-type iterator was only used for generic_file_splice_read(),
> but that has now been switched to either pull pages directly from the
> pagecache for buffered file splice-reads or to use ITER_BVEC instead for
> O_DIRECT file splice-reads.  This leaves ITER_PIPE unused - so remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---

That is a good simplification,
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>




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