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From:   David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
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Subject: RE: [RFC,iov_iter v2 3/8] iov_iter: add copyin_iovec helper
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Date:   Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:31:51 +0000
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From: Joe Damato
> Sent: 13 June 2022 15:43
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> > The additional costs of all the 'iovec' types is bad enough
> > already.
> 
> Do you have data you can share on this?

I was thinking of the performance drop noticed when (IIRC)
reads/writes of /dev/null were pushed through the iovec code.

But there is a lot of overhead code for the usual case
of a single user buffer being copied.

	David

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