[PATCH 1/7] ubi: block: Refactor sg list processing for highmem

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Thu Aug 10 09:21:33 PDT 2023


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 06:15:36PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >> The followup patches in this series will switch to kmap_sg()
> >> and we can remove our own helper and the bounce buffer.
> > 
> > Please just use kmap_local and avoid the bounce buffering.
> 
> Patch 6 does this.

But why add the bounce buffering first if you can avoid it from the
very beginning by just using kmap_local instead of adding a new
caller for the deprecate kmap_atomic?



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