On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
Keep in mind process_madvise() is not limited by IOV_MAX, which can be rather high, but rather UIO_FASTIOV, which is limited to 8 entries. (Some have been surprised by this limitation...!)
Ah if that is the case then I'm fine with this patch as is.
So I think at this point scaling isn't a huge issue, I raise it because in future we may want to increase this limit, at which point we should think about it, which is why I sort of hand-waved it away a bit.
Agreed. SJ, feel free to add my: Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
