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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT
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On Tuesday 09 July 2002 06:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Ben had lightweight sg structures called `kvecs' and `kveclets'. And
> library functions to map pages into them.  And code to attach them
> to BIOs.  So we'll be looking at getting that happening.

And as I recall, a grand plan was hatched at the kernel summit to
slice and dice all the various forms of block IO into that model.

Seeing -> believing

-- 
Daniel
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