Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932351AbWCUS5i (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:57:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932401AbWCUS5i (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:57:38 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:21476 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932351AbWCUS5h (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:57:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:57:34 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org Subject: Re: [NFS] [GIT] NFS client update for 2.6.16 Message-ID: <20060321185734.GB19125@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Trond Myklebust , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org References: <1142961077.7987.14.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20060321174634.GA15827@infradead.org> <1142964532.7987.61.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1142964532.7987.61.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 13 On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:08:52PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > We never had support for multiple iovecs in O_DIRECT, but were passing > around a single iovec entry deep into code that couldn't care less. anthing that moves from iovecs back to plain buffers is counterproductive. The plan is that every fullblown fs will only deal with iovecs, onlt drivers and synthetic filesystems will implement the plain buffers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/