Re: FIle IO Scatter/Gather.

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 10:06:03 EST

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    On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Peter Zaitsev wrote:
    > Could you please tell me if there is (or planned) the sxatter/gather or
    > queue processing on file I/O level.
    > I mean the syscall there you pass an array of different requests which may
    > read or write data in different locations of file. Of couse this may be
    > implemented on user level but the in this case you lose the gain of requests
    > reordering and processing them in optimal sequence.

    Not different locations in a file, but readv() and writev() are close...

            Jeff

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