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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: bsuparna@in.ibm.com
Cc: sct@redhat.com (Stephen C. Tweedie),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
	hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig), ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen)
Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:46:39 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14PSJF-0001qi-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA2569E9.004A4E23.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com> from "bsuparna@in.ibm.com" at Feb 04, 2001 06:54:58 PM

> It appears that we are coming across 2 kinds of requirements for kiobuf
> vectors - and quite a bit of debate centering around that.
> 
> 1. In the block device i/o world, where large i/os may be involved, we'd
> 2. In the networking world, we deal with smaller fragments (for protocol

Its probably worth commenting at this point that the I2O message passing layers
do indeed have both #1 and #2 type descriptor chains to optimise performance
for different tasks. We arent the only people to hit this.

I2O supports 
	offset, pagelist, length

where the middle pages in the list are entirely copied

And sets of
	addr, len

tuples.



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       reply	other threads:[~2001-02-04 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CA2569E9.004A4E23.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com>
2001-02-04 16:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-02-05 12:09 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-02-12 14:56 [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait bsuparna
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-05 19:09 [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 19:16 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Alan Cox
2001-02-05 19:28   ` 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
2001-02-08 15:06                                                     ` 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 16:56 [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Linus Torvalds
2001-02-05 17:27 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Alan Cox
2001-02-01 18:39 [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Rik van Riel
2001-02-01 18:46 ` [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait Alan Cox

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