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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:36:28 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] aio: remove aio-max-nr and instead use the memlock rlimit
 to limit the number of pages pinned for the aio completion ring
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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Or you could queue the completions somewhere, and only copy them to
>> user memory when io_getevents() is called.  I think the plan was
>> once to allow events to be consumed opportunistically even without
>> io_getevents(), though.
>>     
>
> Isn't that integrated (or to be integrated) with the vring buffer
> thingy used by virtio?
>
> If not, should it be?
>
>   

vringfd has been abandoned, AFAICT.  I think it's too similar to aio anyway.


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