Hi, On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 06:00:58PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:07:04AM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > Is that a realistic basis for a cleaned-up ll_rw_blk.c? > > I don't think os. If we minimize the state in the IO container object, > the lower levels could split them at their guess and the IO completion > function just has to handle the case that it might be called for a smaller > object. The whole point of the post was that it is merging, not splitting, which is troublesome. How are you going to merge requests without having chains of scatter-gather entities each with their own completion callbacks? --Stephen - 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/
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... David Lang
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Alan Cox
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Christoph Hellwig
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ben LaHaise
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ben LaHaise
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Andi Kleen
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Martin Dalecki