From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: "'Zach Brown'" <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
       "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
       "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [patch] remove redundant iov segment check
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:25:55 -0800
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Zach Brown wrote on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:22 AM
> >> 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?

Yes, I will take a stab at it this week.

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