Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:37:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:37:00 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:48326 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:36:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 19:33:34 +0000 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" To: Alan Cox , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Steve Lord , 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: <20010201193334.E11607@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20010201180237.A28007@caldera.de> <20010201184950.A448@caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010201184950.A448@caldera.de>; from hch@caldera.de on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:49:50PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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/