Re: FIle IO Scatter/Gather.

From: Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 14:41:06 EST


On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Peter Zaitsev wrote:

> Could you please tell me if there is (or planned) the sxatter/gather
> or queue processing on file I/O level.
> I mean the syscall there you pass an array of different requests which
> may read or write data in different locations of file. Of couse this
> may be implemented on user level but the in this case you lose the
> gain of requests reordering and processing them in optimal sequence.

man readv
man writev

Matthew.

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