linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [AIO] remove unused aio_run

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Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:14:19 -0700
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	suparna@...ibm.com
CC:	linux-aio@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, mason@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [AIO] remove unused aio_run_iocbs()


> 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
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