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Message-ID: <20070213215724.GD22104@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:57:24 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support
* Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> wrote:
> > Open issues:
> If this is going to be a generic AIO subsystem:
>
> - Cancellation of pending request
How about implementing aio_cancel() as a NOP. Can anyone prove that the
kernel didnt actually attempt to cancel that IO? [but unfortunately
failed at doing so, because the platters were being written already.]
really, what's the point behind aio_cancel()?
Ingo
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