linux-kernel - Re: [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio

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Message-ID: <20060726101539.GA8711@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:15:39 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	hch@...radead.org, johnpol@....mipt.ru,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drepper@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile() implementation.

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:12:47AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:04:31 +0100
> 
> > And to be honest, I don't think adding all this code is acceptable
> > if it can't replace the existing aio code while keeping the
> > interface.  So while you interface looks pretty sane the
> > implementation needs a lot of work still :)
> 
> Networking and disk AIO have significantly different needs.
> 
> Therefore, I really don't see it as reasonable to expect
> a merge of these two things.  It doesn't make any sense.

I'm not sure about that.  The current aio interface isn't exactly nice
for disk I/O either.  I'm more than happy to have a discussion about
that aspect.

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