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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains
To: sct@redhat.com (Stephen C. Tweedie)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:19:09 +0000 (GMT)
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> Yes, it's the sort of thing that you would hope should work, but in
> practice it's not reliable.

So the less smart devices need to call something like

	kiovec_align(kiovec, 512);

and have it do the bounce buffers ?


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