Re: Calculating kernel logical address ..

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 01:43:55 EST


On Mon, Sep 09 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Monday 09 September 2002 21:40, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > We need a general-purpose "read or write these pages to this blockdev"
> > library function.
>
> I thought bio was supposed to be that. In what way does it not suffice?
> Simply because of not having a suitable wrapper?

a bio _can_ hold a number of pages, it's just that noone has written the
bio_rw_pages() yet. Not that it would be hard...

-- 
Jens Axboe

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