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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2003 10:53:32 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removal of ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT 
Message-ID:  <20030302185332.4D54B2A89E@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E619B26.DF1E4FC7@imimic.com> 

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"Alan L. Cox" wrote:
> Before I begin work on vm_object locking, I'd like to remove
> ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT from the kernel sources.  ENABLE_VFS_IOOPT was a
> work-in-progress by John Dyson to perform zero-copy file system I/O. 
> Unfortunately, it still has some unresolved issues, and no one has taken
> an active interest in fixing them.

Hold on a second..  I thought the zero-copy folks fixed this up and it
is required for turning on zero-copy mode etc.

I remember they added code to fix the read() coherency problems.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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