Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965724AbXBHXFA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:05:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933366AbXBHXE7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:04:59 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:46732 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933346AbXBHXE6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:04:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:04:33 -0800 From: Mark Fasheh To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Filesystems , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fs: add an iovec iterator Message-ID: <20070208230433.GW14799@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Mark Fasheh References: <20070208105437.26443.35653.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070208105446.26443.35864.sendpatchset@linux.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208105446.26443.35864.sendpatchset@linux.site> Organization: Oracle Corporation User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 22 Hi Nick, On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:07:24PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Add an iterator data structure to operate over an iovec. Add usercopy > operators needed by generic_file_buffered_write, and convert that function > over. I really like this iterator structure - it brings together some fields that seem to get passed around seperately, even though they're linked. Also IMHO, it makes things in filemap.c easer to read... --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior Software Developer, Oracle mark.fasheh@oracle.com - 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/