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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>,
	akpm@digeo.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] iovec in ->aio_read/->aio_write
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:34:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021015153427.A16156@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021015223315.A21139@sgi.com>; from hch@sgi.com on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:33:15PM -0400

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:33:15PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Proposed next steps:  Convert over all readv/writev users
> to aio_read/aio_write and remove the methods.  Implement
> aio_read/aio_write in all filesystems using the generic
> pagecache code and kill the "normal" generic_file_read
> and generic_file_write.
> 
> Comments?

Please not right now? ;-)  At least introduce it as aio_readv/aio_writev 
as currently the way we deal with iovecs uglifies a lot of code, with no 
benefit for the vast majority of applications.  As for killing 
generic_file_read/write and using the aio counterparts, that is the plan 
pending a bit more testing of things.  I want to get there step by step 
without breaking everything along the way.

		-ben
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-16  2:33 [RFC] iovec in ->aio_read/->aio_write Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-15 19:34 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-10-16  6:51   ` Janet Morgan
2002-10-16 13:41     ` Shailabh Nagar
2002-10-16 15:06     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-17 11:22       ` Janet Morgan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-16 14:40 Helen Pang

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