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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Karthik Sarangan <karthiks@cdac.in>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AIO!!
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:08:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051010160856.GI13986@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434A6EFC.4010100@cdac.in>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 07:09:08PM +0530, Karthik Sarangan wrote:
> I wrote a small program to do Async IO from a raw disk
> open has no problems.
> My program gets stuck up at aio_read(paio);
> !!WHY!!

O_DIRECT buffers must be aligned on block sized boundaries (minimum 512 
bytes).  Check the actual return code from the aiocb and you'll find that 
it is likely -EINVAL, no -EINPROGRESS.  See the man page for 
posix_memalign() to properly align the pointer.

		-ben

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-10 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10 13:39 AIO!! Karthik Sarangan
2005-10-10 16:08 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2005-10-11  5:04   ` AIO!! Karthik Sarangan
2005-10-11  9:25     ` AIO!! Denis Vlasenko

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