From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com, sct@redhat.com, roman@augan.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, nico@cam.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:30:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000816203032.M19260@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008161839.LAA09544@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:39:17AM -0700
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:39:17AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> I guess finally, drivers will either get one or a list of
>
> 1. struct page or
>
> Make this "struct page and offset", a page is not enough by itself to
> indicate all the necessary information, you need an offset within the
> page as well.
That's exactly what a kiobuf is --- a vector of struct page *s, plus
an arbitrary offset and length.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-16 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-10 17:18 pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6 Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-11 2:24 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-14 0:34 ` Anton Blanchard
2000-08-11 11:50 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-11 13:20 ` Russell King
2000-08-11 14:56 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-12 9:18 ` Bjorn Wesen
2000-08-11 17:21 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-14 9:29 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-15 16:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 8:25 ` Roman Zippel
2000-08-16 17:13 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 18:24 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-16 19:53 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-16 18:47 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:39 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-16 19:30 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-08-16 22:22 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 9:11 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-08-17 19:07 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:01 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 19:19 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:20 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 19:33 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:36 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-09-07 14:31 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-08-17 19:50 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:41 ` David S. Miller
2000-09-07 14:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2000-08-17 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2000-08-17 19:32 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-17 19:30 ` David S. Miller
2000-08-17 20:00 ` Kanoj Sarcar
2000-08-16 18:17 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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