[xfs-masters] Re: [PATCH -mm 3/10][RFC] aio: use iov_length instead of ki_left

["Nate Diller" <nate.diller@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/15/07, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 05:54:50PM -0800, Nate Diller wrote:
> > Convert code using iocb->ki_left to use the more generic iov_length() call.
>
> No way.  We need to reduce the numer of iovec traversals, not adding
> more of them.

ok, I can work on a version of this that uses struct iodesc.  Maybe
something like this?

struct iodesc {
        struct iovec *iov;
        unsigned long nr_segs;
        size_t nbytes;
};

I suppose it's worth doing the iodesc thing along with this patchset
anyway, since it'll avoid an extra round of interface churn.

NATE