Re: [PATCH] 2.5 port of aio-20020619 for raw devices

From: Shailabh Nagar (nagar@watson.ibm.com)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 14:31:28 EST


Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:37:40PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
>
>>So does the kvec structure go away (and some variant of dio get used) ?
>>
>
>That's orthogonal. kvecs are really just bio_vecs for use by any code
>that has to pass around data that is scatter-gathered.
>
> -ben
>
I see. So generic_aio_rw would directly call some function which used
dio's rather than map the kvec first and call a kvec_op ?

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