On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not at all sure that _anything_ has valid reasons for draining iovecs. > Maintaining a struct iov_iter and modifying it is easy and actually faster... For new code, I agree. But the whole "draining iovec's" is a fairly common old model. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html