kiobuf questions

hi

i'm trying to understand the role of the kiobuf struct in the io subsystem.

there are 2 fields i failed to see any reference to :
end_io and
wait_queue

now, the documentation says that this is a completion callback , but i never saw anyone using it.

the same goes for the wait_queue, i didn't see any code utilizing it( except for the kiobuf_wait_for_io() which noone uses )

THX
/gabi
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Hi,

That's because the only user of kiobuf-based IO is, for now, synchronous. You need end_io() callbacks and a wait queue to allow async completion in the future.

Cheers,
Stephen
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