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Subject: [PATCH 0/3] VFS changes to collapse AIO and vectored IO  into
	single (set of) fileops.
From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
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Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>, christoph <hch@lst.de>,
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Hi,

These series of patches collapses all the vectored IO support into
single set of file-operation method using aio_read/aio_write. 
This work was originally suggested & started by Christoph Hellwig, 
when Zach Brown tried to add vectored support for AIO. 

Here is the summary:

[PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write methods

[PATCH 2/3] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write
instead.

[PATCH 3/3] Zach's core aio changes to support vectored AIO.

BTW, Chuck Lever is actually re-arranging NFS DIO, AIO code to
fit into this model.

I ran various testing including LTP on this series. Andrew,
can you include these in -mm tree ?

Thanks,
Badari