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Hi! > This patch makes an attempt at supporting the O_NONBLOCK flag for regular > files. It's pretty straight-forward. One limitation is that we still call > into the readahead code, which I believe can block. However, if we don't > do this, then an application which only uses non-blocking reads may never > get it's data. This looks very nice. Does it mean that aio and friends are instantly obsolete? Does it have comparable performance to aio? Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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