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

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Message-ID: <9af6dff3-adce-40f8-8649-282212acad9e@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:22:01 +0100
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
 Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: 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 3/12/25 06:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
> 
Errm ... nvmf_connect_admin_queue()/nvmf_connect_io_queue() does ...

Cheers,

Hannes
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