linux-kernel - Re: async I/O seems to be blocking on 2.6.15

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Date:	Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:52:57 -0500
From:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
CC:	Brent Baccala <cosine@...esoft.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: async I/O seems to be blocking on 2.6.15

Jens Axboe wrote:
> Yeah, I'm afraid so. We really should be returning EAGAIN or something
> like that for the congested condition, though.

How would user mode know when it was safe to retry the request?


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