Re: [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:13:35 +0200


On Wed, Aug 15 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:26:21 +0200
>
> Ok, here's an updated version. Maybe modulo the struct scatterlist
> changes, I'd like to see this included in 2.4.x soonish. Or at least the
> interface we agree on -- it'll make my life easier at least. And finally
> provide driver authors with something not quite as stupid as struct
> scatterlist.
>
> Jens, have a look at the patch I have below. What do you
> think about it? Specifically the set of interfaces.

Looks fine to me, exactly the interface I've used/wanted. But you want
to add the extra page/offset to the existing scatterlist, and not scrap
that one completely?

> we can. The x86 versions of the asm/pci.h and
> asm/scatterlist.h bits are pretty mindless and left as
> an exercise to the reader :-)

:-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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