Subject: re: loaning for read() of regular files
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/16/2005 08:46:16
Is there a reason (besides conservatism) that this
is done on a whole-uio base?
The uio is unrolled in fs code later anyway, and having
the hook there (or even integrating it into ubc_alloc???)
would allow for more fine-grained alignment checks,
eventually loaning single pages out of a smaller read().
Didn't look deeper, just trying to understand...
i'm not sure this is relevant or not but page loaning is not
efficient for less than page sized items...
.mrg.