Re: [PATCH] Re: aio_poll in 2.6

Andrew Morton
2003-05-19T22:45:44Z

jgmyers@netscape.com (John Myers) wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> >I can do that, but would need the test app...
> >
> >
> Unfortunately, the thread pool framework the test app uses is proprietary.
>

That is a problem.

Generally, adding new code in codepaths which lots of apps use is low-risk
because problems will be found quickly.

But from a stabilising-the-kernel viewpoint, adding new code which does not
require elevated privileges, and which is not used by any current
applications and which doesn't even have a decent test suite is a big
worry.

There is a little testcase in
http://www.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio/aio-userspace-18a.tar.gz but it is singly
threaded.