Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:39:51 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
       Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
       Johann Borck <johann.borck@densedata.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [take33 10/10] kevent: Kevent based AIO (aio_sendfile()/aio_sendfile_path()).
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:21:42PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com) wrote:
> 
> Since you are implementing new APIs here, have you considered doing an
> aio_sendfilev to be able to send a header with the data ?

It is doable, but why people do not like corking?
With Linux less than microsecond syscall overhead it is better and more
flexible solution, doesn't it?

I'm not saying - 'no, there will not be any *v variants', just getting
more info.

> Regards
> Suparna

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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