From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262229AbVFUTD6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:03:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262232AbVFUTD6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:03:58 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:4060 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262229AbVFUTD5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:03:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:03:38 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Suparna Bhattacharya Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcrl@kvack.org, zab@zabbo.net, mason@suse.com, ysaito@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: Pending AIO work/patches Message-ID: <20050621190338.GA10690@holomorphy.com> References: <20050620120154.GA4810@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050620120154.GA4810@in.ibm.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:31:54PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > Since AIO development is gaining momentum once again, ocfs2 and > samba both appear to be using AIO, NFS needs async semaphores etc, > there appears to be an increase in interest in straightening out some > of the pending work in this area. So this seems like a good > time to re-post some of those patches for discussion and decision. > Just to help sync up, here is an initial list based on the pieces > that have been in progress with patches in existence (please feel free > to add/update ones I missed or reflected inaccurately here): I'm going to keep going over these until I get tired of it for general bulletproofing purposes, but all indications thus far are good. -- wli