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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/4] kevent: core files.
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:31:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060623213144.GF14126@kvack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060623210826.GC26168@2ka.mipt.ru>

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:08:27AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:44:42PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@kvack.org) wrote:
> > > AIO completion approach was designed to be used with process context VFS
> > > update. read/write approach can not cover other types of notifications,
> > > like inode updates or timers.
> > 
> > The completion event is 100% generic and does not need to come from process 
> > context.  Calling aio_complete() from irq context is entirely valid.
> 
> put_ioctx() can sleep.

Err, no, that should definately not be the case.  If it can, someone has 
completely broken aio.

> It is not syscall, but overall design should be analyzed.
> It is possible to use existing ssycalls, kevent design does not care
> about how it's data structures are delivered to the internal
> "processor".

Okay, that's good to hear. =-)

		-ben
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-23 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-22 17:14 [1/1] Kevent subsystem Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-22 19:01 ` James Morris
2006-06-23  5:54   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-22 19:53 ` Robert Iakobashvili
2006-06-23  5:50   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23  6:12 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-23  6:14   ` David Miller
2006-06-23  6:18     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-06-23  7:09 ` [1/4] kevent: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23 18:44   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-06-23 19:24     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23 19:55       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-06-23 20:17         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23 20:44           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-06-23 21:08             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23 21:31               ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2006-06-23 21:43                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23 20:19       ` David Miller
2006-06-23 20:31         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-06-23 20:54           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-24  9:14             ` Robert Iakobashvili
2006-06-23 20:54           ` David Miller
2006-06-23 21:53             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-06-23 22:12               ` David Miller
2006-06-23  7:09 ` [2/4] kevent: network notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23  7:09 ` [3/4] kevent: fs/aio notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-23  7:09 ` [4/4] kevent: generic poll and timer notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-26  9:18 [0/4] kevent: generic event processing subsystem Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26  9:18 ` [1/4] kevent: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 10:31   ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-26 10:37     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-07-26 10:44   ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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