[Pvfs2-developers] Re: noncontig-test

[Robert Latham]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:29:41PM -0500, Sam Lang wrote:
> What about putting the looping in the state machine for IO?  From the  
> server's perspective, it looks like multiple IO operations, but from  
> the client its just adjusting the next state action after the IO  
> completes.  This only fixes the problem at hand, but its a lot easier  
> to implement.

This would complicate sys-io for no gain in performance.  On the plus
side, It would tremendously simplify the ROMIO code, as it could
create datatypes willy-nilly. 

==rob

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