Re: FIle IO Scatter/Gather.

From: Peter Zaitsev (pz@spylog.ru)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 14:45:27 EST


>
> > Could you please tell me if there is (or planned) the sxatter/gather
> > or queue processing on file I/O level.
> > I mean the syscall there you pass an array of different requests which
> > may read or write data in different locations of file. Of couse this
> > may be implemented on user level but the in this case you lose the
> > gain of requests reordering and processing them in optimal sequence.
>
> man readv
> man writev

These read/write sequentaly located blocks into different memory locations
and does not help with any file locations.

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