From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267452AbUG2Rgg (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:36:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267510AbUG2RdC (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:33:02 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:36757 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267505AbUG2RcJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:32:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:32:01 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Avi Kivity Cc: jmoyer@redhat.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-osdl@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/22] AIO poll Message-ID: <20040729173201.GV2334@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Avi Kivity , jmoyer@redhat.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-osdl@osdl.org References: <20040702130030.GA4256@in.ibm.com> <20040702163946.GJ3450@in.ibm.com> <16649.5485.651481.534569@segfault.boston.redhat.com> <41091FAA.6080409@exanet.com> <20040729171037.GS2334@holomorphy.com> <410932C2.6080102@exanet.com> <20040729172659.GU2334@holomorphy.com> <41093421.3080601@exanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41093421.3080601@exanet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:30:09PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Yes. Sorry for being so terse. But busy-waiting isn't acceptable for > anything more than a demonstration, or (extermely) special-purpose > servers, like maybe embedded stuff. Agreed. One of the points of my demonstration was to emphasize how dire the state of affairs is. -- wli