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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:43:22 -0800
From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
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To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: akpm@odsl.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [AIO] reorder kiocb structure elements to make sync iocb setup
 faster
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> The patch below reorders members of the kiocb structure to make sync kiocb 
> setup faster.  By setting the elements sequentially, the write combining 
> buffers on the CPU are able to combine the writes into a single burst, 

Seems reasonable, but can we get comments in both the struct and where
it's initialized explaining this coordination?

- z
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