netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] tun: fix aio

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Message-ID: <20090421125020.GA9740@dhcp-1-124.tlv.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:50:21 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m.s.tsirkin@...il.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] tun: fix aio

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:25:27PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> The following patches make tun_chr_aio_read and tun_chr_aio_write not modify
> the iovec so that io_submit/io_getevents succeed, becoming functionally
> equivalent to write/read on the device.

What are the thoughts on these patches?
Is this a reasonable thing to do?

Thanks,
-- 
MST
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