Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:55:34 +0200
From: christoph <hch@lst.de>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm@osdl.org, christoph <hch@lst.de>,
       Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, cel@citi.umich.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Zach's core aio changes to support vectored AIO
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:08:39AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> This work is initially done by Zach Brown to add support for
> vectored aio. These are the core changes for AIO to support
> IOCB_CMD_PREADV/IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV. 
> 
> I made few extra changes beyond Zach's work. They are
> 	- took out aio_pread/aio_pwrite and made them
> 	  a special case into vectored support
> 	- added single inlined vector to save on kmalloc()
> 	  for a simple aio_read/aio_write
> 	- kiocb->ki_left always indicates the amount of
> 	  IO need to be done. Made sure that this gets
> 	  set in sync case also, so that we don't need
> 	  to loop over iovecs to figure out IO size all
> 	  the time. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>

Please add my Signed-off-by somewhere, I did large portions of the
changes and ACK the final version too.

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