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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/10][RFC] aio: use iov_length instead of ki_left
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 05:54:50PM -0800, Nate Diller wrote:
> Convert code using iocb->ki_left to use the more generic iov_length() call. 

No way.  We need to reduce the numer of iovec traversals, not adding
more of them.

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