From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: jgmyers@netscape.com (John Myers)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: aio_poll in 2.6
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:54:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030519155455.7fb9788d.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC94DB6.8000405@netscape.com>
jgmyers@netscape.com (John Myers) wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> >I can do that, but would need the test app...
> >
> >
> Unfortunately, the thread pool framework the test app uses is proprietary.
>
That is a problem.
Generally, adding new code in codepaths which lots of apps use is low-risk
because problems will be found quickly.
But from a stabilising-the-kernel viewpoint, adding new code which does not
require elevated privileges, and which is not used by any current
applications and which doesn't even have a decent test suite is a big
worry.
There is a little testcase in
http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio/aio-userspace-18a.tar.gz but it is singly
threaded.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-19 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.mc7vl0v.u7u2ah@ifi.uio.no>
2003-05-17 0:54 ` [PATCH] Re: aio_poll in 2.6? John Myers
2003-05-17 2:50 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-19 19:38 ` [PATCH] Re: aio_poll in 2.6 John Myers
2003-05-19 19:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-19 21:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-19 21:33 ` John Myers
2003-05-19 22:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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