Re: [patch] clarify AIO_EVENTS_OFFSET constant

From: Benjamin LaHaise
Date: Fri Oct 13 2006 - 10:23:28 EST


On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:00:24PM -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> A clean up patch: I think it is a lot easier to read AIO_EVENTS_OFFSET
> as an offset because of aio_ring at the beginning of a head page, instead
> of doing arithmetic of (event on 2nd page - event on 1st page).

Nak. Your change fails if aio_ring is not an exact multiple of the
io_event size due to rounding errors, while the original code rounds
correctly.

-ben
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