Re: mmap

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 12:47:16 EST

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On Mon, Jul 02 2001, mdaljeet@in.ibm.com wrote:
> [1] IMHO it would be more useful if iobufs would use a scatterlist
> instead of an struct page* array.

No that would be horrible, at least with the current scatterlist. A page
based scatterlist would be alright though -- but this boils down to the
per-page offset debate again.

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Jens Axboe
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