aio in GENERIC?

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 19 21:25:58 UTC 2012


* Matthew Jacob <mj at feral.com> [120719 09:08] wrote:
> On 7/19/2012 8:58 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >.. the API supports the avoidance of copyin/copyout?
> >
> >
> okay, I'll buy that, although I'm not certain of the utility in general 
> of that.
> 
> The reason I asked was that I have rarely, if ever, run into an AIO 
> implementation that was more trouble than it was worth. It certainly has 
> caused major grief in FreeBSD when used with CAM target mode.

{AIO,Pthreads,SMP,etc} are hard, let's go shopping?

really? :)

-Alfred


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