From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH] add support for vectored and async I/O to all simple filesystems Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:20:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20051101192000.GB29542@mail.shareable.org> References: <20051101023656.GA23724@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:48797 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751171AbVKATUI (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:20:08 -0500 To: Christoph Hellwig Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101023656.GA23724@lst.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Every filesystem using generic_file_read/generic_file_write directly > can easily support vectored and async (well at least the API, it's not > async quite yet in mainline) I/O. Does this change mean aio system calls will now succeed, but not actually be asynchronous? -- Jamie