[PATCH v9 00/26] netfs: Keep track of folios in a segmented bio_vec[] chain

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Tue Aug 11 00:26:58 PDT 2026


> this is a bad idea.  This is a giant series that also touches core code
> with no review whatsoever.  And I repeatedly asked for:

Since it's post the cut off point the series does not make the coming
merge window. It's also not in -next on purpose. The series was just
pulled for testing.

> 
>  1) the core changes to be split out
>  2) come up with users for this very core primitive in the hot path
>     (iov_iter) that are not just for your rather niche use case
> 
> There's been absolutely no follow on to this, and we should not treat
> the absolute core I/O path like this.




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