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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:19:42 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: async-io API registration for 2.5.29
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:25:27AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:32:38AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > disagree, merging synchronous requests would make much more sense than
> > merging asynchronous requests in the same syscall, it would make them
> > asynchronous with respect than each other without losing their global
> > synchronous behaviour w.r.t. userspace.
> 
> readv/writev..

exactly, that's the same concept even if it cannot intermix read,
writes, fsyncs and polls in the same call :).

Andrea
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