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Subject: RE: copy offload support in Linux - new system call needed?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:27:55 -0500
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From: "Loke, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@netscout.com>
To: "Trond Myklebust" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
        "Ric Wheeler" <ricwheeler@gmail.com>,
        "Al Viro" <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Hannes Reinecke" <hare@suse.de>,
        "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, "Joel Becker" <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
        "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org

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