From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Status of AIO
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:33:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306233300.GR20768@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a36005b50603061453w36f5d49cs7bac0c186aee30b3@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:53:07PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> I don't think the POSIX AIO nor the kernel AIO interfaces are suitable
> for sockets, at least the way we can expect network traffic to be
> handled in the near future. Some more radical approaches are needed.
> I'll have some proposals which will be part of the talk I have at OLS.
Oh? I've always envisioned that network AIO would be able to use O_DIRECT
style zero copy transmit, and something like I/O AT on the receive side.
The in kernel API provides a lightweight event mechanism that should work
ideally for this purpose.
-ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 6:24 Status of AIO Dan Aloni
2006-03-06 15:05 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-06 21:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 22:53 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-03-06 23:15 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-08 7:09 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-03-08 15:58 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-06 23:33 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-03-07 0:24 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 0:42 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07 0:51 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 1:39 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07 2:04 ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07 2:07 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07 3:11 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 7:33 ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07 3:06 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 16:35 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-07 1:34 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07 3:04 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 4:07 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07 6:02 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 16:06 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07 1:30 ` Dan Aloni
2006-03-07 1:37 ` Nicholas Miell
2006-03-07 1:37 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-07 1:40 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 23:18 ` Phillip Susi
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