Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754894AbXABSWG (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:22:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754893AbXABSWG (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:22:06 -0500 Received: from tetsuo.zabbo.net ([207.173.201.20]:36473 "EHLO tetsuo.zabbo.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754886AbXABSWF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:22:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070102110136.GA20640@infradead.org> References: <000001c717c0$f82b5ea0$2589030a@amr.corp.intel.com> <28F99581-3A2A-45BD-8F00-B554313E2C26@oracle.com> <20070102110136.GA20640@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <712B05B5-F7E2-4F19-9980-2CA95C5D15AC@oracle.com> Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Zach Brown Subject: Re: [patch] remove redundant iov segment check Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:22:00 -0800 To: Christoph Hellwig X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 728 Lines: 21 >> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to make this change as part of a >> larger change that moves towards an explicit iovec container struct >> rather than bare 'struct iov *' and 'nr_segs' arguments. > I suspect it should be rather trivial to get this started. As a first > step we simply add a > > struct iodesc { > int nr_segs; > struct iovec ioc[] > }; Agreed, does anyone plan to try this in the near future? I can always throw it at the bottom of the todo list :/. - z - 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/