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Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

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