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From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
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> I only intend to do this for reads and non-allocating writes; in those
> cases, it's actually pretty easy.

*nod*

> My concern with just stuffing every single io_submit into a kernel
> thread is the overhead involved, especially if there is a high rate of
> AIO submission (think high-speed PCIe-attached flash).

Oh, I certainly agree.  It'd be real work to find out if its possible to
make it perform reasonably.  I'd still like to see someone support that
work so I'll keep mentioning it :).

- z