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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
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        "kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Alan Cox" 
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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains 
In-Reply-To: Message from Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> 
   of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:33:27 +0100." <200102012033.VAA15590@ns.caldera.de> 
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:56:47 -0600
From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
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> In article <20010201174946.B11607@redhat.com> you wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:34:49PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > In the disk IO case, you basically don't get that (the only thing
> > which comes close is raid5 parity blocks).  The data which the user
> > started with is the data sent out on the wire.  You do get some
> > interesting cases such as soft raid and LVM, or even in the scsi stack
> > if you run out of mailbox space, where you need to send only a
> > sub-chunk of the input buffer. 
> 
> Though your describption is right, I don't think the case is very common:
> Sometimes in LVM on a pv boundary and maybe sometimes in the scsi code.


And if you are writing to a striped volume via a filesystem which can do
it's own I/O clustering, e.g. I throw 500 pages at LVM in one go and LVM
is striped on 64K boundaries.

Steve


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