On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 03:21:35PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> You really don't want to be looping through the array twice.
Profiles, please.
> I think the 'length' check can be optimised to do something like:
> for (...) {
> ssize_t len = (ssize_t)iov[seg].iov_len;
> ret += len;
> len_hi += (unsigned long)len >> 20;
> }
> if (len_hi) {
> /* Something potentially odd in the lengths.
> * Might just be a very long fragment.
> * Check the individial values. */
> Add the exiting loop here.
> }
Far too ugly to live.
