linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] iov_iter: Convert iterate*() to inline funcs

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Date:   Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:38:46 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, jlayton@...nel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] iov_iter: Convert iterate*() to inline funcs

On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 07:40, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Convert the iov_iter iteration macros to inline functions to make the code
> easier to follow.

I like this generally, the code generation deprovement worries me a
bit, but from a quick look on a test-branch it didn't really look all
that bad (but the changes are too big to usefully show up as asm
diffs)

I do note that maybe you should just also mark
copy_to/from/page_user_iter as being always-inlines. clang actually
seems to do that without prompting, gcc apparently not.

Or at *least* do the memcpy_to/from_iter functions, which are only
wrappers around memcpy and are just completely noise. I'm surprised
gcc didn't already inline that. Strange.

            Linus