Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751475AbXE2VvV (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 17:51:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753410AbXE2VvJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 17:51:09 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:53003 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753413AbXE2VvI (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 17:51:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:49:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Zach Brown cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Ulrich Drepper , Evgeniy Polyakov , "David S. Miller" , Suparna Bhattacharya , Davide Libenzi , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6 In-Reply-To: <20070529212718.GH7875@mami.zabbo.net> Message-ID: References: <20070529212718.GH7875@mami.zabbo.net> 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 Content-Length: 819 Lines: 21 On Tue, 29 May 2007, Zach Brown wrote: > > Included in this patch series is an experimental patch which reworks fs/aio.c > to reuse the syslet subsystem to process iocb requests from user space. The > intent of this work is to simplify the code and broaden aio functionality. .. so don't keep us in suspense. Do you have any numbers for anything (like Oracle, to pick a random thing out of thin air ;) that might actually indicate whether this actually works or not? Or is it just so experimental that no real program that uses aio can actually work yet? Linus - 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/