Manfred Spraul writes:
 > process 2 (on cpu 1)
 >      read(fd,buf,64kB).
 >      * reads the data
 >      * now it must wake up, but it will return from the syscall, thus
 > wake_up_interruptible().

Oh, I see and thus the pre-kiovec case would be:

process 2 (on cpu 1)
        read(fd, buf,64kb)
        * reads 4K
        * wake_up_interruptible_sync()
        * sleep()
        * reads 4K

etc etc.

Later,
David S. Miller
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