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Message-ID: <x49tx3zpsfg.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:48:35 -0400
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Elliott\, Robert \(Server Storage\)" <Elliott@...com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
	Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-aio\@kvack.org" <linux-aio@...ck.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@...net.de>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache only)

Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:

> Without the atomic WRITE SCATTERED use case adding the syscalls seems
> rather pointless, and I'd really avoid blocking nice software only
> features like the per-I/O nonblock flag (and the similarly trivial
> per-I/O sync option I have a prototype for) on it.

Andreas and Zach pointed out that the scatter/gather system calls also
help network file systems.  I'm not yet sure how much work it would be,
but it certainly seems worth considering readx/writex (or whatever we
want to call them) to avoid needlessly adding a ton of system calls.

Cheers,
Jeff
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