Re: RFC: sg driver addition: SG_FLAG_SHARED_MMAP_IO

2007-03-22 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:37 -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: In my experience mmap-ed IO using sg's reserve buffer mapped into the user space is faster than direct IO schemes. However one shortcoming is that if you try to copy between two devices using this technique then you end up with two

RFC: sg driver addition: SG_FLAG_SHARED_MMAP_IO

2007-03-21 Thread Douglas Gilbert
I mentioned this idea a few weeks ago on this list: namely to allow a sg pass-through request to use the mmap-ed reserve buffer associated with another sg file descriptor. In my experience mmap-ed IO using sg's reserve buffer mapped into the user space is faster than direct IO schemes. However