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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:33:34 +0000
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains
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Hi,

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:49:50PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > Adding tons of base/limit pairs to kiobufs makes it worse not better
> 
> For disk I/O it makes the handling a little easier for the cost of the
> additional offset/length fields.

Umm, actually, no, it makes it much worse for many of the cases.  

--Stephen
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