[PATCH v2 14/21] cifs: Remove support for ITER_FOLIOQ from smb_extract_iter_to_rdma()

Stefan Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Tue May 19 01:19:58 PDT 2026


Am 19.05.26 um 00:29 schrieb David Howells:
> netfslib now only presents an bvecq queue and an associated ITER_BVECQ
> iterator to the filesystem, so it isn't going to see the ITER_FOLIOQ
> iterator.  So remove that code.
> 
> Netfslib also won't supply ITER_BVEC/KVEC iterators, though smbdirect
> might; further in future, it won't supply iterators at all, but rather a
> bvecq slice (that can be used to construct an iterator).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
> cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
> cc: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
> cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad at microsoft.com>
> cc: Tom Talpey <tom at talpey.com>
> cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
> cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
> cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
if you change this in the commit message
cifs: to smbdirect: and smb_extract_iter_to_rdma to
smbdirect_map_sges_from_iter

Thanks!
metze



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