Giant and MPSAFE

Ben Paley ben at spooty.net
Mon Oct 18 01:05:58 PDT 2004


On Sunday 17 October 2004 19:55, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Some subsystems have not yet been modified so they take advantage of
> multiple processors.  aio is one of them, and because it interlinks
> with the network subsystem, if you have it in your kernel you can't
> make use of smp in the entire network stack.
>
> It's unlikely that you really need aio since it's still experimental
> code, so you can just compile it out of your kernel.

Thanks - but I can't find 'aio' in my kernel config file at all. What line 
should I comment out to get rid of it?

Cheers,
Ben


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