From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: aio
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 03:49:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011220034942.A2632@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011219.213910.15269313.davem@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201127400.2656-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201127400.2656-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from mingo@elte.hu on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:44:05AM +0100
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:44:05AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> we need a sane interface that covers *all* sorts of IO, not just sockets.
> I used to have exactly the same optinion as you have now, but now i'd like
> to have a common async IO interface that will cover network IO, block IO
> [or graphics IO, or whatever comes up]. We should have something saner and
> more explicit than a side-branch of fcntl() handling the socket fasync
> code.
I second this wholeheartedly. And I believe there are still more
motivations for providing asynchronous interfaces for all I/O in
the realm of assisting the userland:
(1) It would simplify the ways applications have and the kernel
overhead of responding to user input while I/O is in progress.
(2) It would provide a more efficient way to do M:N threading than
watchdogs and nonblocking poll/select in itimers.
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-20 11:50 UTC|newest]
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2001-12-18 16:50 ` Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) Linus Torvalds
2001-12-18 16:56 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-18 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-18 19:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-18 21:02 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-18 21:14 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-18 21:17 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-18 21:19 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-18 21:30 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-18 21:18 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-19 17:44 ` IRC (was: Scheduler) Daniel Phillips
2001-12-19 17:51 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-19 18:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-19 18:19 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-19 18:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-19 18:40 ` J Sloan
2001-12-19 16:50 ` Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) Daniel Phillips
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112190859050.1872-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2001-12-19 18:57 ` aio Ben LaHaise
2001-12-19 19:29 ` aio Dan Kegel
2001-12-20 4:04 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-19 20:09 ` aio Daniel Phillips
2001-12-19 20:21 ` aio Davide Libenzi
[not found] ` <mailman.1008792601.3391.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-12-19 20:23 ` aio Pete Zaitcev
2001-12-20 0:13 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 0:21 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-20 0:36 ` aio Andrew Morton
2001-12-20 0:55 ` aio H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-20 0:47 ` aio Davide Libenzi
2001-12-20 1:16 ` aio Bill Huey
2001-12-20 1:20 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 2:26 ` aio Bill Huey
2001-12-20 2:45 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-19 18:57 ` aio John Heil
2001-12-20 3:06 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-19 19:30 ` aio John Heil
2001-12-20 5:29 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 3:21 ` aio Bill Huey
2001-12-27 9:36 ` aio Martin Dalecki
2001-12-20 3:07 ` aio Bill Huey
2001-12-20 3:13 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 3:47 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-20 5:39 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 5:58 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-20 6:00 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 6:46 ` aio Mike Castle
2001-12-20 6:55 ` aio Robert Love
2001-12-20 7:13 ` aio Mike Castle
2001-12-20 7:01 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 7:27 ` aio Daniel Phillips
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2001-12-20 11:49 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2001-12-20 16:32 ` aio Dan Kegel
2001-12-20 18:05 ` aio Davide Libenzi
2001-12-20 21:45 ` aio Lincoln Dale
2001-12-20 21:59 ` aio Linus Torvalds
2001-12-24 11:44 ` aio Gerold Jury
2001-12-20 23:02 ` aio Lincoln Dale
2001-12-21 17:24 ` aio Alan Cox
2001-12-21 17:16 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-23 5:35 ` aio Bill Huey
2001-12-20 14:38 ` aio Luigi Genoni
2001-12-20 17:26 ` aio Henning Schmiedehausen
2001-12-20 20:04 ` aio M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-12-20 23:53 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-21 0:28 ` Offtopic Java/C# [Re: aio] Bill Huey
[not found] ` <mailman.1008817860.10606.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-12-20 5:16 ` aio Pete Zaitcev
2001-12-20 16:16 ` aio Dan Kegel
2001-12-21 11:44 ` aio Gerold Jury
2001-12-21 13:48 ` aio Ingo Molnar
2001-12-21 15:27 ` aio Gerold Jury
2001-12-24 11:08 ` aio Gerold Jury
2001-12-20 17:24 ` aio Henning Schmiedehausen
2001-12-20 2:37 ` aio Cameron Simpson
2001-12-20 2:47 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 2:52 ` aio Cameron Simpson
2001-12-20 2:58 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 5:47 ` aio Linus Torvalds
2001-12-20 5:57 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 5:59 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-20 6:02 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 6:07 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-20 6:12 ` aio David S. Miller
2001-12-20 6:23 ` aio Linus Torvalds
2001-12-20 10:18 ` aio Ingo Molnar
2001-12-20 18:20 ` aio Robert Love
2001-12-20 22:30 ` aio Cameron Simpson
2001-12-20 22:46 ` aio Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-20 6:09 ` aio Linus Torvalds
2001-12-20 17:28 ` aio Suparna Bhattacharya
[not found] ` <mailman.1008816001.10138.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-12-20 5:07 ` aio Pete Zaitcev
2001-12-20 5:10 ` aio Cameron Simpson
2001-12-21 17:28 ` aio Alan Cox
2001-12-23 5:46 ` aio Bill Huey
2001-12-23 6:34 ` aio Dan Kegel
2001-12-23 18:43 ` aio Davide Libenzi
2001-12-26 20:42 ` Java and Flam^H^H^H^H AIO (was: aio) Daniel Phillips
2001-12-18 19:11 ` Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) Mike Galbraith
2001-12-18 19:15 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-18 22:32 ` in defense of the linux-kernel mailing list Ingo Molnar
2001-12-18 17:55 ` Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) Davide Libenzi
2001-12-18 19:43 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-20 2:56 aio Mikael Pettersson
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