Re: block layer sg, bsg

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Date: Wed Aug 04 2004 - 18:52:10 EST


In article <20040804232116.GA30152@xxxxxx> (at 5 Aug 2004 01:21:16 +0200,Thu, 5 Aug 2004 01:21:16 +0200), Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> says:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:22:54PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:18:50 -0400
> > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:28:04PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > So please never pass any structures with read/write/netlink.
> > >
> > > Sorry... This is pretty much a given IMO.
> >
> > Yes, netlink would be a nop if we gave in to Andi's reccomendation
> > :-)
>
> Well, 32bit ipsec on x86-64/ia64 is a NOP because of that.

Hmm, I don't get the point.
What part (or which structore) is broken?

--yoshfuji
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