Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751718AbXBAWTn (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:19:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751729AbXBAWTn (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:19:43 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:46571 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751717AbXBAWTm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 17:19:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070201111307.GA24723@in.ibm.com> References: <63FDFD68-EE2B-4BB7-B624-513243B87634@oracle.com> <200701311821.59579.ak@suse.de> <20070201111307.GA24723@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4D9CAE22-C038-41C2-965F-48B7D38F0E02@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, Benjamin LaHaise , Linus Torvalds Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Zach Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 4 of 4] Introduce aio system call submission and completion system calls Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:18:55 -0800 To: suparna@in.ibm.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 518 Lines: 12 > Wooo ...hold on ... I think this is swinging out of perspective :) I'm sorry, but I don't. I think using the EIOCBRETRY method in complicated code paths requires too much maintenance cost to justify its benefits. We can agree to disagree on that judgement :). - z - 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/