On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:40:13AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 23:28 +0000, James Bottomley wrote: > > Can you explain how the code works? it looks to me like you read the xdr > > stuff through the vmap region then write it out directly to the pages? > > OK, I think I see how this is supposed to work: It's a sequential loop > of reading in via the pages (i.e. through the kernel mapping) and then > updating those pages via the vmap. In which case, I think this patch is > what you need. > > The theory of operation is that the readdir on pages actually uses the > network DMA operations to perform, so when it's finished, the underlying What network DMA operations - what if your NIC doesn't do DMA because it's an SMSC device? -- 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
