Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 14:33:34 EST

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:49:50PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Adding tons of base/limit pairs to kiobufs makes it worse not better
>
> For disk I/O it makes the handling a little easier for the cost of the
> additional offset/length fields.

Umm, actually, no, it makes it much worse for many of the cases.

--Stephen
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