From: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Aio <linux-aio@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 port of aio-20020619 for raw devices
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:31:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D80EB90.3020304@watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020912145324.L18217@redhat.com
Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:37:40PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
>
>>So does the kvec structure go away (and some variant of dio get used) ?
>>
>
>That's orthogonal. kvecs are really just bio_vecs for use by any code
>that has to pass around data that is scatter-gathered.
>
> -ben
>
I see. So generic_aio_rw would directly call some function which used
dio's rather than map the kvec first and call a kvec_op ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 18:21 [PATCH] 2.5 port of aio-20020619 for raw devices Shailabh Nagar
2002-09-12 18:35 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-12 18:37 ` Shailabh Nagar
2002-09-12 18:53 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-12 19:31 ` Shailabh Nagar [this message]
2002-09-12 19:40 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-13 13:16 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-09-13 13:44 ` Jens Axboe
2002-09-13 19:34 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-13 19:57 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-09-13 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
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