Re: kiobuf using kernel pages

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 02:00:21 +0000 (GMT)


Hi,

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:24:23 +0100 (MET), Gerard Roudier
<groudier@club-internet.fr> said:

> PS:
> BTW, requiring kiobuf references to memory to reference whole page (as I
> read in some other posting) or to be page boundary aligned is not the way
> to go, in my opinion.

They don't. kiobufs are page containers in that they reference a list
of pages, but the kiobuf structure also contains a start offset and
length for the valid data within that.

--Stephen

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