Re: [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write methods

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  	do {
> -		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
> -			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
> +		struct iovec iov = {
> +			.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf,
> +			.iov_len = iocb->ki_left
> +		};
> +
> +		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, &iov, 1, iocb->ki_pos);
> 
> this still has the lifetime problems Ben pointed out.  aio might still
> be outstanding when this thread returned to userspace, so we need to
> dynamically allocated the iovec and free it later.  (or make it part
> of the iocb?)

I left that intentionally alone. I was planning to make it a
special case of Zach's vector IO handling code.


Thanks,
Badari