From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: suparna@in.ibm.com, sebastien.dugue@bull.net,
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-aio@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Kernel patches enabling better POSIX AIO (Was Re: [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile)
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:28:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060812192802.GO32572@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DE27AB.7040507@redhat.com>
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > I am wondering about that too. IIRC, the IO_NOTIFY_* constants are not
> > part of the ABI, but only internal to the kernel implementation. I think
> > Zach had suggested inferring THREAD_ID notification if the pid specified
> > is not zero. But, I don't see why ->sigev_notify couldn't used directly
> > (just like the POSIX timers code does) thus doing away with the
> > new constants altogether. Sebestian/Laurent, do you recall?
>
> I suggest to model the implementation after the timer code which does
> exactly what we need.
Yeah, and if at all possible we want to use just one helper thread for
SIGEV_THREAD notification of timers/aio/etc., so it really should behave the
same as timer thread notification.
Jakub
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-12 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-25 19:23 async network I/O, event channels, etc Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-25 20:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-25 21:24 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-25 22:01 ` David Miller
2006-07-25 22:55 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-07-26 6:28 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 9:18 ` [0/4] kevent: generic event processing subsystem Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 9:18 ` [1/4] kevent: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 9:18 ` [2/4] kevent: network AIO, socket notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 9:18 ` [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile() implementation Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 9:18 ` [4/4] kevent: poll/select() notifications. Timer notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 10:00 ` [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile() implementation Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-26 10:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-26 10:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 10:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-26 10:12 ` David Miller
2006-07-26 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-26 20:21 ` Phillip Susi
2006-07-26 14:14 ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-26 10:19 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 10:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-26 14:28 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-26 16:22 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-07-27 6:49 ` Sébastien Dugué
2006-07-27 15:28 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-07-27 18:14 ` Zach Brown
2006-07-27 18:29 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-07-27 18:44 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-27 21:02 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-07-28 7:31 ` Sébastien Dugué
2006-07-28 12:58 ` Sébastien Dugué
2006-08-11 19:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-08-12 18:29 ` Kernel patches enabling better POSIX AIO (Was Re: [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile) Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-08-12 19:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-08-12 19:28 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2006-09-04 14:37 ` Sébastien Dugué
2006-08-14 7:02 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-08-14 16:38 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-08-15 2:06 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-09-04 14:36 ` Sébastien Dugué
2006-09-04 14:28 ` Sébastien Dugué
2006-07-28 7:29 ` [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile() implementation Sébastien Dugué
2006-07-31 10:11 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-07-28 7:26 ` Sébastien Dugué
2006-07-26 10:31 ` [1/4] kevent: core files Andrew Morton
2006-07-26 10:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 10:44 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-27 6:10 ` async network I/O, event channels, etc David Miller
2006-07-27 7:49 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-27 8:02 ` David Miller
2006-07-27 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-27 8:11 ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-27 8:20 ` David Miller
2006-07-27 8:29 ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-27 8:37 ` David Miller
2006-07-27 8:39 ` Jens Axboe
2006-07-27 8:58 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-27 9:31 ` David Miller
2006-07-27 9:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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