Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 13:12:41 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, dyson@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: John's latest VM commit. Message-ID: <970.884088761@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Jan 1998 01:48:53 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980106014540.10245B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980106014540.10245B-100000@current1.whistle.com>, Jul ian Elischer writes: >why am I so unsurpised at your appearance here :) Hey, don't say I'm not fighting your case! Well, my case too I guess :-) >On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> YES!!!! >> >> Struct buf should just be the way you explain to a (block)-devicedriver >> what you want it to do. This links right into Julians slice code :-) > >That kind-of presumes that I'm ever allowed to check it in.. >;-) patience. >My present slice code does use bufs as they are now for >IO but that's because they are trying to co-exist with older code. >if I was freed from that constraint they could quite easily >go the way we discussed. Well, if everybody else evacuates struct buf we can mold it to our ideas... The main obstruction currently is the hideous size it has. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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