Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> writes: > Without the atomic WRITE SCATTERED use case adding the syscalls seems > rather pointless, and I'd really avoid blocking nice software only > features like the per-I/O nonblock flag (and the similarly trivial > per-I/O sync option I have a prototype for) on it.
Andreas and Zach pointed out that the scatter/gather system calls also help network file systems. I'm not yet sure how much work it would be, but it certainly seems worth considering readx/writex (or whatever we want to call them) to avoid needlessly adding a ton of system calls. Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
