From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965051AbWCUTMG (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:12:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965059AbWCUTMG (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:12:06 -0500 Received: from citi.umich.edu ([141.211.133.111]:26031 "EHLO citi.umich.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965051AbWCUTMF (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:12:05 -0500 Message-ID: <44205003.8070702@citi.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:12:03 -0500 From: Chuck Lever Reply-To: cel@citi.umich.edu Organization: Network Appliance, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trond Myklebust , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, nfsv4@linux-nfs.org Subject: Re: [NFS] [GIT] NFS client update for 2.6.16 References: <1142961077.7987.14.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20060321174634.GA15827@infradead.org> <1142964532.7987.61.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20060321185734.GB19125@infradead.org> <1142967981.7987.92.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> In-Reply-To: <1142967981.7987.92.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020505010409050904040303" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020505010409050904040303 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Trond Myklebust wrote: > As I said in my other posting, I believe Chuck's changes are relatively > orthogonal to what you want to do: they neither make the low-level > plumbing better or worse for readv()/writev(). > > We'd be happy to work with you in the run-up to 2.6.18 to add > multi-segment support for the existing patchsets. It makes more sense to > me to append that functionality to the existing patchsets rather than > trigger a complete rewrite (and thus have a sh_tload more code to > retest). after i reviewed this work with zach last summer, he and i also agreed that it would be best if i did this work after the generic changes are integrated -- so he wouldn't have to work on, and possibly break, the NFS client. i have been watching the multi-segment iovec work since then, and fully intended to add the support for readv/writev aio in the NFS direct path when the generic support becomes available. --------------020505010409050904040303 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="cel.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cel.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Chuck Lever n:Lever;Charles org:Network Appliance, Incorporated;Open Source NFS Client Development adr:535 West William Street, Suite 3100;;Center for Information Technology Integration;Ann Arbor;MI;48103-4943;USA email;internet:cel@citi.umich.edu title:Member of Technical Staff tel;work:+1 734 763-4415 tel;fax:+1 734 763 4434 tel;home:+1 734 668-1089 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://troy.citi.umich.edu/u/cel/ version:2.1 end:vcard --------------020505010409050904040303--