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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:38:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: One more bio for for floppy users in 2.5.33..
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> With partial results, it would need to do only a slightly different 
> traversal:
> 
> 	end = bio->bi_io_vec + bio->bi_vcnt*PAGE_SIZE - bio->bi_size
> 
> 	start = end - nr_sectors * 512
> 
> 	PAGE_ALIGN(start)
> 	PAGE_ALIGN(end)
> 
> but it's otherwise the exact same code (doing all the edge calculations in 
> bytes, and then only traversing pages that have now been fully done and 
> weren't fully done last time).
> 
> It _looks_ like it literally needs just a few lines of changes.

Ok, so we now have two "few lines of code" changes. Who wants to actually
_do_ these? I'll do it if nobody else wants to, but I'd much rather see
somebody else _do_ want to do this and test it out and just send me a
tested patch ;)

		Linus

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