From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200301241934.h0OJYf0V005773@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Subject: Re: 2.5.59-mm5 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:22:39 +1100." <3E31765F.4010900@cyberone.com.au> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <3E31765F.4010900@cyberone.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1046921216P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:34:41 -0500 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Giuliano Pochini , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@alex.org.uk, Alex Tomas , Andrew Morton , Oliver Xymoron List-ID: --==_Exmh_-1046921216P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:22:39 +1100, Nick Piggin said: > We probably wouldn't want to go that far as you obviously can > only merge reads with reads and writes with writes, a flag would > be fine. We have to get the basics working first though ;) "obviously can only"? Admittedly, merging reads and writes is a lot trickier, and probably "too hairy to bother", but I'm not aware of a fundamental "cant" that applies across IDE/SCSI/USB/1394/fiberchannel/etc. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech --==_Exmh_-1046921216P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+MZVQcC3lWbTT17ARAirtAKD+vdxMTQ7XTuj3ys3j+eCl+RTVEgCfWIfu SdYafBlBqlHPsPw841b1FmQ= =iqYo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1046921216P-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/