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Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC?
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On 7/19/2012 8:58 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> .. the API supports the avoidance of copyin/copyout?
>
>
okay, I'll buy that, although I'm not certain of the utility in general 
of that.

The reason I asked was that I have rarely, if ever, run into an AIO 
implementation that was more trouble than it was worth. It certainly has 
caused major grief in FreeBSD when used with CAM target mode.