Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:48:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:47:59 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:57985 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:47:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:47:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011219.184718.88473152.davem@redhat.com> To: cs@zip.com.au Cc: billh@tierra.ucsd.edu, bcrl@redhat.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org Subject: Re: aio From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011220133705.A21648@zapff.research.canon.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011219171631.A544@burn.ucsd.edu> <20011219.172046.08320763.davem@redhat.com> <20011220133705.A21648@zapff.research.canon.com.au> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Cameron Simpson Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:37:05 +1100 (Though an attitude like yours is a core reason Java is spreading as slowly as it is - much like Linux desktops...) It's actually Sun's fault more than anyone else's. However, heavily threaded apps regardless of language are hardly likely to disappear; threads are the natural way to write many many things. And if the kernel implements threads as on Linux, then the scheduler will become much more important to good performance. We are not talking about the scheduler, we are talking about AIO. - 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/