On 24/04/2017 14:55, Stephen Bates wrote: > >> So far, no one has submitted a patch. > > OK, unless I hear that someone else is working on one I will take a look at this. > >> I hope the off_t parameter is passed exactly the same way as for pwritev >> and its 64-bit variant, for all architectures. > > Duly noted. > > For the kernel peeps I think this makes a case for revisiting the “big hammer” control for IO polling since it is going to be a while before applications can utilize the preadv2/pwritev2 approach… I will take a look at that too. > > Stephen > > I am working on it btw [1] [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-04/msg00461.html PS: resending with cc to all.