From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fs: add an iovec iterator Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:40:30 +0000 Message-ID: <20070309104030.GB4503@infradead.org> References: <20070208105437.26443.35653.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070208105446.26443.35864.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070208194953.GA4118@infradead.org> <20070209014626.GB17334@wotan.suse.de> <5c49b0ed0702081803o6d2ba99ct5703f76465c524f4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nick Piggin , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Filesystems , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton To: Nate Diller Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37468 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767148AbXCIKkc (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 05:40:32 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0702081803o6d2ba99ct5703f76465c524f4@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:03:50PM -0800, Nate Diller wrote: > i had a patch integrating the iodesc idea, but after some thought, had > decided to call it struct file_io. That name reflects the fact that > it's doing I/O in arbitrary lengths with byte offsets, and struct > file_io *fio contrasts well with struct bio (block_io). I also had > used the field ->nbytes instead of ->count, to clarify the difference > between segment iterators, segment offsets, and absolute bytecount. struct file_io sounds rather ugly to me, I don't know why. And it's really user I/O so we could call it struct uio (historical punt intended) :)