From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Cc: sct@redhat.com (Stephen C. Tweedie),
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
manfred@colorfullife.com (Manfred Spraul),
hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig), lord@sgi.com (Steve Lord),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:16:55 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14Pr8G-0003zV-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102051101100.31165-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> from "Linus Torvalds" at Feb 05, 2001 11:09:45 AM
> Stop this idiocy, Stephen. You're _this_ close to be the first person I
> ever blacklist from my mailbox.
I think I've just figured out what the miscommunication is around here
kiovecs can describe arbitary scatter gather
its just that they can also cleanly describe the common case of contiguous
pages in one entry.
After all a subpage block is simply a contiguous set of 1 page.
Alan
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2001-02-01 14:44 [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains bsuparna
2001-02-01 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 16:08 ` Steve Lord
2001-02-01 16:49 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 17:49 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:09 ` Chaitanya Tumuluri
2001-02-01 20:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 20:56 ` Steve Lord
2001-02-01 20:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 21:17 ` Steve Lord
2001-02-01 21:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 22:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-02 12:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-05 12:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 21:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-05 22:58 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 23:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 23:16 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-06 0:19 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-03 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 11:03 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 12:00 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-05 15:03 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 17:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 17:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 18:49 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 19:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-05 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 19:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-02-05 19:28 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 20:54 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-05 21:08 ` David Lang
2001-02-05 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-06 0:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-06 17:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-06 17:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-06 17:14 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-06 17:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-06 18:26 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-06 17:37 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 18:00 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-06 18:09 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 19:35 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-06 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-08 11:21 ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-08 14:11 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-02-08 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 18:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 18:25 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 18:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 18:54 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 18:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 19:11 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 19:32 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-06 19:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 19:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 19:49 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 19:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 20:07 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-06 20:25 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 20:41 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-06 20:50 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-06 21:26 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-06 21:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 20:16 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-06 22:09 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-06 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 21:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-06 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 23:17 ` select() returning busy for regular files [was Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait] Pavel Machek
2001-02-08 13:57 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-08 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-08 15:06 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Ben LaHaise
2001-02-08 13:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-08 13:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-07 23:15 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-08 13:22 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-08 12:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-08 15:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-02-08 14:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-08 16:11 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-02-08 14:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-08 16:57 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-08 17:13 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-08 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-09 12:17 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-02-08 15:55 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-08 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-08 14:52 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-02-08 19:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-11 21:30 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-06 21:57 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-02-06 22:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 22:26 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-02-06 20:49 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-07 0:21 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-07 0:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-07 0:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-07 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 1:49 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-07 2:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 14:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-07 19:12 ` Richard Gooch
2001-02-07 20:03 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-07 1:51 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-07 1:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-07 1:59 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-07 1:02 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-07 1:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 1:39 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-07 1:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 1:55 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-07 9:10 ` David Howells
2001-02-07 12:16 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-07 2:00 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-07 1:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-07 1:09 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-07 1:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-07 1:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 2:07 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-07 1:08 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-07 2:08 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-07 1:42 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-07 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 0:35 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-07 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 1:27 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-07 1:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-12 10:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-02-06 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 20:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-06 20:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 19:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-02-06 20:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 21:20 ` Steve Lord
2001-02-07 18:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-06 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 18:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-07 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-07 18:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-08 0:34 ` Neil Brown
2001-02-06 19:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 20:16 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-02-06 20:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 0:31 ` Roman Zippel
2001-02-06 1:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-06 9:22 ` Roman Zippel
2001-02-06 9:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-02-06 1:08 ` David S. Miller
2001-02-05 22:09 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Ingo Molnar
2001-02-05 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 17:27 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Alan Cox
2001-02-05 16:36 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 19:08 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 18:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-01 18:59 ` yodaiken
2001-02-01 19:33 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 18:51 ` bcrl
2001-02-01 16:16 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 17:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 17:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 18:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 18:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 18:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-01 18:46 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Alan Cox
2001-02-01 18:48 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 19:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 19:32 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-01 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 21:25 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-02 11:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-02 14:04 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-02 4:18 ` bcrl
2001-02-02 12:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-01 20:04 ` Chaitanya Tumuluri
[not found] <CA2569E9.004A4E23.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>
2001-02-04 16:46 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Alan Cox
2001-02-12 14:56 bsuparna
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