Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:22:58 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:05:06PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > 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?
The object passed down to the low-level driver just needs to ne able to contain multiple end-io callbacks. The decision what to call when some of the scatter-gather entities fail is of course not so easy to handle and needs further discussion.
Christoph
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