Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:09:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:09:41 -0500 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:31238 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:09:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 18:09:14 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , bsuparna@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains Message-ID: <20010201180914.A29298@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , bsuparna@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010201160953.A17058@caldera.de> <20010201161615.T11607@redhat.com> <20010201180515.B28007@caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010201180515.B28007@caldera.de>; from hch on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:05:15PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:05:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > What, you mean adding *extra* stuff to the heavyweight kiobuf makes it > > lean enough to do the job?? > > No. I was speaking abou the light-weight kiobuf Linux & Me discussed on ^^^^^ Linus ... > lkml some time ago (though I'd much more like to call it kiovec analogous > to BSD iovecs). > > And a page,offset,length tuple is pretty cheap compared to a current kiobuf. Christoph (slapping himself for the stupid typo and selfreply ...) -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/