linux-kernel - Re: [take3 2/4] kevent: AIO, aio

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Message-ID: <44D22CA4.5090405@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:04:36 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [take3 2/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile() implementation.

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> AIO, aio_sendfile() implementation.
>
> This patch includes asynchronous propagation of file's data into VFS
> cache and aio_sendfile() implementation.
> Network aio_sendfile() works lazily - it asynchronously populates pages
> into the VFS cache (which can be used for various tricks with adaptive
> readahead) and then uses usual ->sendfile() callback.
>
> ...
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel/kevent/kevent_aio.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,584 @@
> +/*
> + * 	kevent_aio.c
> + * 
>   
Since this is *almost* same as mpage.c code, wondering if its possible 
to make common
generic/helper routines in mpage.c and use it here ?

Thanks,
Badari

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