Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932442AbWCFXRQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:17:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932445AbWCFXRP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:17:15 -0500 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([69.44.168.233]:13486 "EHLO iradimed.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932442AbWCFXRP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:17:15 -0500 Message-ID: <440CC29F.2060906@cfl.rr.com> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:15:43 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulrich Drepper CC: Benjamin LaHaise , Dan Aloni , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Status of AIO References: <20060306062402.GA25284@localdomain> <20060306211854.GM20768@kvack.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2006 23:19:32.0026 (UTC) FILETIME=[6C9391A0:01C64174] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.52.1006-14308.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--1.600000-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 16 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > I don't think the POSIX AIO nor the kernel AIO interfaces are suitable > for sockets, at least the way we can expect network traffic to be > handled in the near future. Some more radical approaches are needed. > I'll have some proposals which will be part of the talk I have at OLS. Why do you say it is not suitable? The kernel aio interfaces should work very well, especially when combined with O_DIRECT. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/