From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 3 11:23:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5F8151A7 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:23:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id LAA07091; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:23:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:23:33 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:23:33 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIO was Re: Kernel threads In-Reply-To: <3870F6B6.EC4EE37E@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: wes@softweyr.com,freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > Kip Macy wrote: > > > > > > > > The best fix I've thought of thus far (other than async I/O, which I > > > understand isn't ready for prime time) would be to have a number of kernel > > > > Speaking of AIO, which I would really like to use if possible, how > > actively maintained is it? The copyright on vfs_aio.c is 1997, suggesting > > to me that John Dyson has moved onto other things. > > It's passively maintained. ;^) > > I've become a little familiar with the code, and BDE has graciously agreed > to review whatever I do to make sure I don't hobble it. If you need help, > yell. > I have a little, ~300LOC, program in which aio does not behave as I think it should. Would it be possible for me to send it to you and have you take a look at it? -Kip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message