From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755770AbaISKwY (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:52:24 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45655 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752036AbaISKwX (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:52:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:52:20 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Milosz Tanski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, Mel Gorman , Volker Lendecke , Tejun Heo , Jeff Moyer , "Theodore Ts'o" , Al Viro Subject: Re: [RFC v2 2/5] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2 Message-ID: <20140919105220.GC14281@infradead.org> References: <20140918184823.GA10155@birch.djwong.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140918184823.GA10155@birch.djwong.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:48:23AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > A few months ago I was working on extending these interfaces (well, the > p{read,write}* ones and AIO) to tack on an IO extension buffer at the end of > the syscall arguments. Honestly, that proposal is so but ugly that I treated it as an April first joke. I don't really think we want any of that overload mess.