netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 02/23] iov_iter: DDP copy to iter/pages

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:05:42 +0300
From:   Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...dia.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/23] iov_iter: DDP copy to iter/pages

Hi Christoph,

Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> writes:
> I don't think this is a good subject line.  What the patch does is
> to skip the memcpy, so something about that in the subject.  You

Sure, we will use the following subject:

  iov_iter: skip copy if src == dst for direct data placement

> can then explain the commit log why that is done.  And given that
> the behavior isn't all that obvious I think a big fat comment in the
> code would be very helpful in this case as well.

And we will add the big comment.