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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:22:58 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:05:06PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> The whole point of the post was that it is merging, not splitting,
> which is troublesome.  How are you going to merge requests without
> having chains of scatter-gather entities each with their own
> completion callbacks?

The object passed down to the low-level driver just needs to ne able
to contain multiple end-io callbacks.  The decision what to call when
some of the scatter-gather entities fail is of course not so easy to
handle and needs further discussion.

	Christoph

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