linux-kernel - Re: io_submit delay problems revisited

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Message-Id: <1166872322.3281.621.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:12:01 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Patrick Reynolds <reynolds@...duke.edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: io_submit delay problems revisited

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 22:16 -0500, Patrick Reynolds wrote:
> I believe that io_submit() blocks when it shouldn't.  I have read the two
> recent LKML threads on the subject.

> Any ideas?
> 

AIO to files isn't actually asynchronous (with the possible exception of
O_DIRECT opened files).....

 
> --Patrick
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