Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:04:33 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1 |
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Remove this. I don't think it's valid to lock the pages. Who wants to use > > this anyway? > > E.g. in the block IO pathes the pages have to be locked. > It's also used by free_kiovec to see wether to do unlock_kiovec before.
This is all MUCH higher level functionality, and probably bogus anyway.
> > That's kind of the minimal set. That should be one level of abstraction in > > its own right. > > Ok. Then we need an additional more or less generic object that is used for > passing in a rw_kiovec file operation (and we really want that for many kinds > of IO). I thould mostly be used for communicating to the high-level driver.
That's fine.
Linus
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