On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:39:59PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:57:31AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > This RFC provides a rough implementation of a mechanism to allow
> > > userspace to attach protection information (e.g. T10 DIF) data to a
> > > disk write and to receive the information alongside a disk read. The
> > > interface is an extension to the AIO interface: two new commands
> > > (IOCB_CMD_P{READ,WRITE}VM) are provided. The last struct iovec in the
> >
> > Sorry for the shallow question, but what does that M stand for?
>
> Hmmm... I really don't remember why I picked 'M'. Probably because it implied
> that the IO has extra 'M'etadata associated with it.
Magical! :)
- z
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