Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify

[Manfred Spraul]

"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> 
> The original multi-page buffers came from the map_user_kiobuf
> interface: they represented a user data buffer.  I'm not wedded to
> that format --- we can happily replace it with a fine-grained sg list
>
Could you change that interface?

<<< from Linus mail:

        struct buffer {
                struct page *page;
                u16 offset, length;
        };

>>>>>>

/* returns the number of used buffers, or <0 on error */
int map_user_buffer(struct buffer *ba, int max_bcount,
			void* addr, int len);
void unmap_buffer(struct buffer *ba, int bcount);

That's enough for the zero copy pipe code ;-)

Real hw drivers probably need a replacement for pci_map_single()
(pci_map_and_align_and_bounce_buffer_array())

The kiobuf structure could contain these 'struct buffer' instead of the
current 'struct page' pointers.

> 
> In other words, even if we expand the kiobuf into a sg vector list,
> when it comes to merging requests in ll_rw_blk.c we still need to
> track the callbacks on each independent source kiobufs.
>
Probably.

--
	Manfred