From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268253AbUG2QJl (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:09:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268331AbUG2QFd (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:05:33 -0400 Received: from services.exanet.com ([212.143.73.102]:38654 "EHLO services.exanet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268253AbUG2QCz (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:02:55 -0400 Message-ID: <41091FAA.6080409@exanet.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:02:50 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031027 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jmoyer@redhat.com CC: suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-osdl@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/22] AIO poll References: <20040702130030.GA4256@in.ibm.com> <20040702163946.GJ3450@in.ibm.com> <16649.5485.651481.534569@segfault.boston.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <16649.5485.651481.534569@segfault.boston.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jul 2004 16:02:51.0863 (UTC) FILETIME=[80683670:01C47585] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Moyer wrote: >What are the barriers to getting the AIO poll support into the kernel? I >think if we have AIO support at all, it makes sense to add this. > > I second the motion. I don't see how one can write a server which uses both networking and block aio without aio poll. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.