Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:35:40 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 port of aio-20020619 for raw devices |
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote: > I just did a rough port of the raw device part of the aio-20020619.diff > over to 2.5.32 using the 2.5 aio API published so far. The changeset > comments are below. The patch hasn't been tested. Its only guaranteed > to compile. > > I'd like to reiterate that this is not a fork of aio kernel code > development or any attempt to question Ben's role as maintainer ! This > was only an exercise in porting to enable a comparison of the older > (2.4) approach with whatever's coming soon. > > Comments are invited on all aspects of the design and implementation.
The generic aio <-> kvec functions were found to not work well, and the chunking code needs to actually pipeline data for decent io thruput. Short story: the raw device code must be rewritten using the dio code that akpm introduced.
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