Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753533Ab2JBTex (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:34:53 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:6416 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752051Ab2JBTev (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:34:51 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,524,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="151642926" From: Andi Kleen To: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@google.com, tj@kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Zach Brown , Dmitry Monakhov , "Maxim V. Patlasov" , michael.mesnier@intel.com, jeffrey.d.skirvin@intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] Extensible AIO interface References: <20121001222341.GF26488@google.com> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:34:33 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20121001222341.GF26488@google.com> (Kent Overstreet's message of "Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:23:41 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 22 Kent Overstreet writes: > So, I and other people keep running into things where we really need to > add an interface to pass some auxiliary... stuff along with a pread() or > pwrite(). How would you enumerate this? How does the application know what the underlying stack supports/need? How is versioning handled? Frankly, in this form it looks more like a special purpose hack than a general facility. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- 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/