From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: [PATCH] add support for vectored and async I/O to all simple filesystems Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:57:45 -0500 Message-ID: <20051101205745.GB27231@kvack.org> References: <20051101023656.GA23724@lst.de> <20051101192000.GB29542@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from kanga.kvack.org ([66.96.29.28]:61319 "EHLO kanga.kvack.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751196AbVKAU7z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:59:55 -0500 To: Jamie Lokier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101192000.GB29542@mail.shareable.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:20:00PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > 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? Yes, there doesn't seem to be the will to merge the buffered filesystem aio patches. -ben