Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:55:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:54:51 -0500 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:1041 "EHLO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:54:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:03:19 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" cc: Pavel Machek , Linus Torvalds , Jens Axboe , Manfred Spraul , Ben LaHaise , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Steve Lord , Linux Kernel List , kiobuf-io-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait In-Reply-To: <20010208132218.E9130@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > How do you write high-performance ftp server without threads if select > > on regular file always returns "ready"? > > Select can work if the access is sequential, but async IO is a more > general solution. Even async IO (ie aio_read/aio_write) should block on the request queue if its full in Linus mind. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/