Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add kernel AIO support for POSIX AIO

["Sébastien Dugué" <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:46 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote:
> infrastructure to be used by user level libraries aiming at implementing
> a POSIX compliant API on top of this kernel support.
> 
>   This patchset is comprised of 5 patches, each implementing a specific
> functionality:
> 
> 	- aiomaxevents: adds a sysctl variable for setting the default 
> 	  AIO context event ring size at runtime. This tunable is 
> 	  accessible via /proc/sys/fs/posix-aio-default-max-nr.
> 
> 	- aioevent: adds support for request completion notification.
> 
> 	- lioevent: adds support for list of requests completion 
> 	  notification.
> 
> 	- liowait: adds support for the POSIX listio LIO_WAIT mechanism.
> 
> 	- cancelfd: adds support for cancellation against a file 
> 	  descriptor.
> 
>  These patches apply cleanly on a vanilla 2.6.12 kernel tree and should 
> be applied in the order shown before.
> 


  Sorry forgot to credit Laurent Vivier as the main author of these
patches.

  Sébastien.

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