Chuck Lever wrote: > On Jan 8, 2009, at Jan 8, 2009, 10:12 PM, Greg Banks wrote: >> >> a) support partial reads but do so properly: [...] >> >> b) don't support partial reads but require userspace to do larger full >> reads. I don't think 100K is too much to ask. > > How about: > > c) Use an mmap like API to avoid copying 100K of data between user > space and kernel. I think that would be a significant complexity hit, and even at 100K the size of the data just doesn't warrant it. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. the brightly coloured sporks of revolution. I don't speak for SGI. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
