Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] iov_iter: allow iov_iter_get_pages_alloc to allocate more pages per call

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Sat Feb 04 2017 - 17:13:02 EST


On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 8:26 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 03:08:42AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> What am I missing here? Looks like those checks in fuse_copy_page() are
> dead code... They had been there since the initial merge, but AFAICS
> they were just as useless in 2.6.14. Rudiments of some prehistorical stuff
> that never had been cleaned out, perhaps?

Yep, that one is probably historical. I'll double check to make sure, though.

Thanks,
Miklos