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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	tytso@google.com, tj@kernel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>,
	Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>,
	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>,
	"Maxim V. Patlasov" <mpatlasov@parallels.com>,
	michael.mesnier@intel.com, jeffrey.d.skirvin@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] Extensible AIO interface
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:34:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r4pgwtva.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121001222341.GF26488@google.com> (Kent Overstreet's message of "Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:23:41 -0700")

Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> writes:

> So, I and other people keep running into things where we really need to
> add an interface to pass some auxiliary... stuff along with a pread() or
> pwrite().

How would you enumerate this? 
How does the application know what the underlying stack supports/need?
How is versioning handled?

Frankly, in this form it looks more like a special purpose hack than a general
facility. 

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-02 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-01 22:23 [RFC, PATCH] Extensible AIO interface Kent Overstreet
2012-10-01 23:12 ` Zach Brown
2012-10-01 23:22   ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-01 23:44     ` Zach Brown
2012-10-02  0:22       ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-02 17:43         ` Zach Brown
2012-10-02 21:41           ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-03  1:41             ` Tejun Heo
2012-10-03  3:00               ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-03 21:58                 ` Tejun Heo
2012-10-04 19:50                   ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-02  0:47       ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-02 22:34     ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-10-02 17:41 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-10-03  0:20   ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-03  1:28     ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-03  2:41       ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-04  1:04         ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-03 19:15     ` Jeff Moyer
2012-10-04 19:37       ` Kent Overstreet
2012-10-02 19:34 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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