sgl (or uio) in struct buf / bio

mdf at FreeBSD.org mdf at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 18 23:21:33 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Joel Jacobson <jjacobson at panasas.com> wrote:
> a few years ago (2008), i asked about the prospect of getting an sgl passed through struct buf / bio, and was referred to the jhb_bio branch.  i never did figure out how to view it, though, and it fell off my radar for a while.
>
> did anything ever come of it, and if so/not, are there any plans for switching to something like using a uio instead of a pointer/length pair?
>

To the best of my knowledge, this is still something many of us would
like to see done, and no one has had any time to work on.

Cheers,
matthew


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