On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> With partial results, it would need to do only a slightly different
> traversal:
>
> end = bio->bi_io_vec + bio->bi_vcnt*PAGE_SIZE - bio->bi_size
>
> start = end - nr_sectors * 512
>
> PAGE_ALIGN(start)
> PAGE_ALIGN(end)
>
> but it's otherwise the exact same code (doing all the edge calculations in
> bytes, and then only traversing pages that have now been fully done and
> weren't fully done last time).
>
> It _looks_ like it literally needs just a few lines of changes.
Ok, so we now have two "few lines of code" changes. Who wants to actually
_do_ these? I'll do it if nobody else wants to, but I'd much rather see
somebody else _do_ want to do this and test it out and just send me a
tested patch ;)
Linus
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