Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:37:40 -0400 | From | Shailabh Nagar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 port of aio-20020619 for raw devices |
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > >>I just did a rough port of the raw device part of the aio-20020619.diff >>over to 2.5.32 using the 2.5 aio API published so far. The changeset >>comments are below. The patch hasn't been tested. Its only guaranteed >>to compile. >> >>I'd like to reiterate that this is not a fork of aio kernel code >>development or any attempt to question Ben's role as maintainer ! This >>was only an exercise in porting to enable a comparison of the older >>(2.4) approach with whatever's coming soon. >> >>Comments are invited on all aspects of the design and implementation. > > > The generic aio <-> kvec functions were found to not work well, and > the chunking code needs to actually pipeline data for decent io thruput. > Short story: the raw device code must be rewritten using the dio code > that akpm introduced. > > -ben > --
So does the kvec structure go away (and some variant of dio get used) ?
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