Hi Christoph,
Note that there are plenty of other use cases for preadv2/pwritev2 as well,
but I'd like to concentrate on this one for now. Example are: non-blocking
reads (the original purpose), per-I/O O_SYNC, user space support for T10
DIF/DIX applications tags and probably some more.
So I'm trying to understand how can integrity metadata be used here.
Will the user-app append the meta-data to the data iovec (given there
is no metadata iovec)? If so, how will we separate data from metadata?
The idea that was floated aroud a few times was to have a flag where
the first half of the vectors would be the data, and the second half
the metadata.
This means that the user would need to pass iovec entries of 8 bytes
correct? Seems like a waste for large IOs (sorry for diverging from the
subject)
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