Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:37:31 -0800 | From | "Nate Diller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 3/10][RFC] aio: use iov_length instead of ki_left |
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On 1/15/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 05:54:50PM -0800, Nate Diller wrote: > > Convert code using iocb->ki_left to use the more generic iov_length() call. > > No way. We need to reduce the numer of iovec traversals, not adding > more of them.
ok, I can work on a version of this that uses struct iodesc. Maybe something like this?
struct iodesc { struct iovec *iov; unsigned long nr_segs; size_t nbytes; };
I suppose it's worth doing the iodesc thing along with this patchset anyway, since it'll avoid an extra round of interface churn.
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