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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: suparna@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	mason@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [AIO] remove unused aio_run_iocbs()
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:14:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CF7DDB.3070705@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801072731.GA20484@in.ibm.com>


> Chris Mason's aio pipe patches used these to reduce the large
> number of context switches he was observing when running pipetest.
> Of course aio pipe support hasn't been merged into mainline so far, and hence
> you could argue that we put these back in if/when we hit that problem.

Yeah, and that's trivial.

> But why
> not just put in a comment there for now to ease the confusion ... generally
> I'd rather go a little slow in removing apparently unused code at this
> point when we are churning things up again.

The only thing slower than not removing it after *years* of not being
used would be to never remove it :)

So I don't see any value in keeping it, but I won't make a fight of it
either.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31 22:12 [PATCH] [AIO] remove unused aio_run_iocbs() Zach Brown
2006-08-01  7:27 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-08-01 16:14   ` Zach Brown [this message]
2006-08-02  8:09     ` Suparna Bhattacharya

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