Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-26T18:19:54Z

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 20:37 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> I tend to agree.
> Yes, some loads require event driven model, other can be done using
> threads.

event driven model is really complex though. For event driven to work
well you basically can't tolerate blocking calls at all ...
open() blocks on files. read() may block on metadata reads (say indirect
blockgroups) not just on datareads etc etc. It gets really hairy really
quick that way.

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