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Re: Status of pwritev2/preadv2 in glibc?
On 24/04/2017 14:55, Stephen Bates wrote:
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>> So far, no one has submitted a patch.
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> OK, unless I hear that someone else is working on one I will take a look at this.
I am working on it btw [1]
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>> I hope the off_t parameter is passed exactly the same way as for pwritev
>> and its 64-bit variant, for all architectures.
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> Duly noted.
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> For the kernel peeps I think this makes a case for revisiting the “big hammer” control for IO polling since it is going to be a while before applications can utilize the preadv2/pwritev2 approach… I will take a look at that too.
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> Stephen
[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-04/msg00461.html