From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] splice support
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:50:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <442B9BD5.7030101@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060330002726.48cf0ffb.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
>> It doesn't, I'm assuming that find_get_pages() returns consequtive pages
>> atm. Would seem like the sane interface :-)
>
>
> Yeah, sorry. It's a "gather what's presently there" thing. For writeback.
>
> Nick has some gang-lookup-slots code. So instead of populating an array of
> page*'s you can populate an array of (effectively) page**'s. Then one
> could walk that. All while holding ->tree_lock. This doesn't help ;)
>
Actually while we're on the subject, my gang_lookup_slot code is just
named to match lookup_slot and gang_lookup... it still only returns
slots that are presently populated. Suggestions for a better name
welcome?
> Probably the simplest for now is an open-coded find_get_page() loop. Later
Agreed. I think that's the best idea for now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-29 12:28 [PATCH][RFC] splice support Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 12:30 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 13:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-29 13:27 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 21:49 ` Nathan Scott
2006-03-29 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-29 20:42 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 20:43 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 6:17 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 1:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-30 1:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 3:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:21 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 7:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 7:33 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 3:10 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:16 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 7:45 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 8:10 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 8:50 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-30 8:51 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:15 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 9:45 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 10:01 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 2:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:00 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 7:33 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-03-30 13:53 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 14:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-03-30 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 14:55 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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2005-12-19 9:16 Jens Axboe
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