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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:49:58 -0700
From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
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Subject: Re: aio-core why not using SuS? [Re: [rfc] aio-core for 2.5.29 (Re: 
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Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:53:06PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 12:03:34PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 03:09:46PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> > > > Also, wasn't the fact that the API was designed to support both POSIX
> > > > and completion port style semantics, another reason for a different
> > > > (lightweight) in-kernel api? The c10k users of aio are likely to find
> > > > the latter model (i.e.  completion ports) more efficient.
> > >
> > > if it's handy for you, can you post a link to the API defined by
> > > POSIX and completion ports so I can read them too and not only SuS?
> >
> > Don't have anything handy atm that's any better than what you could
> > get through doing a google on "IO Completion ports". (See section at
> > the end of this note for some info)
> 
> Oh sorry, I should have mentioned Dan Kegel's site which actually
> has all the pointers you need. See http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
> (It has pointers to links to both NT and OS/400 completion ports)

but not yet the DAFS stuff, thanks, I'll link to that.
- Dan
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