netdev - Re: [PATCH] mm: Decline to manipulate the refcount on a slab page

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Message-ID: <Z9EgGzPxjOFTKoLj@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 22:48:11 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Decline to manipulate the refcount on a slab page

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 04:59:53PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> So I have two questions:
> 
> Hannes:
>  - Why does nvme need to turn the kvec into a bio rather than just
>    send it directly?

It doensn't need to and in fact does not.