On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 03:10:09PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> You chose to add a kvec_cb field to the bio structure rather than use
> bi_private ?
Yup. I'm lazy. Also, the cb struct actually needs 2 pointers, so just
bi_private isn't enough.
> For the raw path, you are OK since you never have to copy data out of
> the kvecs after i/o completion, and unmap_kvec only looks at veclet pages.
> So the fact block can change the offset and len fields in the veclets
> doesn't affect you, but thought I'd mention it as a point of caution
> anyhow ...
Ugh. That sounds like something bio should not be doing. If someone
wants to fix it, such a patch would be much appreciated, otherwise it'll
wait until I'm back in Canada.
-ben
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