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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	drepper@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Status of AIO
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:07:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307020736.GW20768@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307020411.GA21626@localdomain>

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:04:11AM +0200, Dan Aloni wrote:
> This somehow resembles the scatter-gatter lists already used in some 
> subsystems such as the SCSI sg driver. 

None of the iovecs are particularly special.  What's special here is that 
particulars of the container make the fast path *cheap*.

> BTW you have to make these pages Copy-On-Write before this procedure 
> starts because you wouldn't want it to accidently fill the zero page, 
> i.e. the VM will have to supply a unique set of pages otherwise it 
> messes up.

No, that would be insanely expensive.  There's no way this would be done 
transparently to the user unless we know that we're blocking until the 
transmit is complete.

		-ben
-- 
"Time is of no importance, Mr. President, only life is important."
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06  6:24 Status of AIO Dan Aloni
2006-03-06 15:05 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-06 21:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 22:53   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-03-06 23:15     ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-08  7:09       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-03-08 15:58         ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-06 23:33     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  0:24       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  0:42         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  0:51           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  1:39             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  2:04               ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07  2:07                 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-03-07  3:11                   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  7:33                   ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07  3:06               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 16:35                 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07  1:34         ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  3:04           ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07  4:07             ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  6:02               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 16:06                 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  1:30   ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07  1:37     ` Nicholas Miell
2006-03-07  1:37     ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07  1:40     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 23:18 ` Phillip Susi

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