linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 3/10][RFC] aio: use iov_length instead of ki

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Message-ID: <20070116021438.GA15774@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:14:38 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Nate Diller <nate@...mi.com>
Cc:	Nate Diller <nate.diller@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Kenneth W Chen <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	linux-aio@...ck.org, xfs-masters@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/10][RFC] aio: use iov_length instead of ki_left

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.

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