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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org
Subject: Re: read()/readv() only from page cache
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:04:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140905160413.GA28285@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49r3zqxdh0.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:02:19PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > One further consideration would be to finally implement real buffered
> > I/O in kernel space by something like the above and offloading to
> > workqueues in kernelspace.  I think our workqueues now are way better
> > than any possible user thread pool, although we'd need to find a way to
> > temporarily tie the work threads to a user address space.
> 
> Do you mean real buffered AIO?

Yes.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-05 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-25  2:36 read()/readv() only from page cache Milosz Tanski
2014-09-05 11:09 ` Mel Gorman
2014-09-05 15:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-05 16:02     ` Jeff Moyer
2014-09-05 16:04       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-09-05 16:27     ` Milosz Tanski
2014-09-05 16:32       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-05 16:45         ` Milosz Tanski
2014-09-07 20:48       ` Volker Lendecke

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