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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:16:55 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: sct@redhat.com (Stephen C. Tweedie), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
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> Stop this idiocy, Stephen. You're _this_ close to be the first person I
> ever blacklist from my mailbox. 

I think I've just figured out what the miscommunication is around here

kiovecs can describe arbitary scatter gather

its just that they can also cleanly describe the common case of contiguous
pages in one entry.

After all a subpage block is simply a contiguous set of 1 page.

Alan


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