On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:43:23PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > Hello Christoph, > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 07:29:36PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Mid-term I plan to restructure the file_operations so that we don't need > > to have all these duplicate aio and vectored versions. This patch is > > a small step in that direction but also a worthwile cleanup on it's own: > > Good idea, but I think that we may want to do a bit more serious overhauling > of how socket read/write works. Right now the fast path case of networking > is pretty atrocious and winds its way through quite a number of layers > before any actual work is done. What I would like to do is something > along the following: have a protocol specified fast path (which can likely > be shared amongst many protocols) that provides a read() and write() > operation with the option for msghdr bits and flags. When it falls out of > the fast path, then we can incur the overhead of setting up the data > structures that would be shared with aio. I'm still hacking around on > af_unix right now, and will spend the time today to put together a bit of > a patch showing what I mean.
While this sounds like a good idea I don't see how it's related to these bits at all. It seems completly orthogonal to me, except for possible small patch conflicts when touching similar areas. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
