On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mike Christie wrote:

> Well, iscsi too, but there is the scatterwalk code which the crypto api
> uses today and looks similar to what ide, libata, and scsi need.

Ok, I see what you mean now. Well, my impression is that one could, 
certainly, merge the 2 APIs, but this would incur overhead for both usage 
patterns: crypto traverses the list page / segment at a time, I think, 
some other block users (IDE?) would need the same; whereas the code I am 
proposing is optimised for the case when one needs just to map a few bytes 
from the sg-list, access them, and unmap.

Have I got it right? Other opinions? Perhaps, a lib/scattergather.c with 
these both APIs, and, possibly, others?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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