Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:19:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:19:42 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:21252 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:19:40 -0500 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) Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com (Manfred Spraul), sct@redhat.com (Stephen C. Tweedie), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), hch@caldera.de (Christoph Hellwig), lord@sgi.com (Steve Lord), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) In-Reply-To: <20010205150354.E1167@redhat.com> from "Stephen C. Tweedie" at Feb 05, 2001 03:03:54 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 ? - 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/