Re: FIle IO Scatter/Gather.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 11:31:26 EST

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    > 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.

    You mean implementing some kind of "preadv" where the vector holds positions
    for each block ?

    Alan

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