Re: Request for feedback on common data backstore in the kernel

2007-09-26 Thread Scott Long
Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Hi Scott, The discussion has been moved to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Please only reply there next time. On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Scott Long wrote: Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Hi, Please keep me CC'ed, hence I'm not on all these lists. In the kernel we currently

Re: Request for feedback on common data backstore in the kernel

2007-09-26 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi Scott, The discussion has been moved to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Please only reply there next time. On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Scott Long wrote: > Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Please keep me CC'ed, hence I'm not on all these lists. > > > > In the kernel we currently have two di

Re: Request for feedback on common data backstore in the kernel

2007-09-26 Thread Scott Long
Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Hi, Please keep me CC'ed, hence I'm not on all these lists. In the kernel we currently have two different data backstores: struct mbuf and struct buf These two backstores serve two different device types. "mbufs" are for network devices and "buf" is for disk de

Re: Request for feedback on common data backstore in the kernel

2007-09-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Hans Petter Selasky wrote this message on Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:31 +0200: > Please keep me CC'ed, hence I'm not on all these lists. > > In the kernel we currently have two different data backstores: > > struct mbuf > > and > > struct buf > > These two backstores serve two different device t

Request for feedback on common data backstore in the kernel

2007-09-25 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi, Please keep me CC'ed, hence I'm not on all these lists. In the kernel we currently have two different data backstores: struct mbuf and struct buf These two backstores serve two different device types. "mbufs" are for network devices and "buf" is for disk devices. Problem: The current