On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:12:42AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > we end up calling it is allowed to try and steal pages). Possibly more > > variants on the read side of things... FWIW, I'm not sure that bio_vec > > makes a lot of sense here. > > bio_vec just is one of the many page+offset+len containers we have, I > guess Dave took it because loop uses it. We could either invent a new > one here or finally have a common one for the different uses all over > the kernel. *blink* Good luck unifying all such uses. That would have to include the things needed by pipe_buffer, DMA-related bits for scatterlist, etc. I don't believe that it's feasible, or would've been a good idea in the first place... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
