Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:05:06 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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Hi,
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 06:00:58PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:07:04AM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > Is that a realistic basis for a cleaned-up ll_rw_blk.c? > > I don't think os. If we minimize the state in the IO container object, > the lower levels could split them at their guess and the IO completion > function just has to handle the case that it might be called for a smaller > object.
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?
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