> It doesn't really matter that much, because we write to the pagecache > first anyway. Not for raw I/O. Although for the drivers that can't cope then going via the page cache is certainly the next best alternative > The real thing is that we want to have some common data structure for > describing physical memory used for IO. We could either use special Yes. You also need a way to describe it in terms of page * in order to do mm locking for raw I/O (like the video capture stuff wants) > by Larry McVoy's splice paper) should allow just that, nothing more an > nothing less. For use in disk-io and networking or v4l there are probably > other primary data structures needed, and that's ok. Certainly having the lightweight one a subset of the heavyweight one is a good target. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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