Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking

bsuparna@in.ibm.com
Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:05:41 +0530


>Ok. Then we need an additional more or less generic object that is used
for
>passing in a rw_kiovec file operation (and we really want that for many
kinds
>of IO). I thould mostly be used for communicating to the high-level
driver.
>
>/*
> * the name is just plain stupid, but that shouldn't matter
> */
>struct vfs_kiovec {
> struct kiovec * iov;
>
> /* private data, mostly for the callback */
> void * private;
>
> /* completion callback */
> void (*end_io) (struct vfs_kiovec *);
> wait_queue_head_t wait_queue;
>};
>
> Christoph

Shouldn't we have an error / status field too ?

Suparna Bhattacharya
Systems Software Group, IBM Global Services, India
E-mail : bsuparna@in.ibm.com
Phone : 91-80-5267117, Extn : 2525

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