Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Pending AIO work/patches | | From | Sébastien Dugué <> | | Date | Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:36:52 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:10 -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > (3) POSIX AIO support (Bull: Laurent/Sebastian or Oracle: Joel) > > Status: Needs review and discussion ? > > The latest version incorporates changes from the last round of feedback > (great work Sebastien!) and updates the library license, so people should > definately take a closer look. This includes the necessary changes for > in-kernel signal support, as well as minimal conversion done on iocbs (the > layout matches the in-kernel iocb). > > A quick reading shows that most of it looks quite good. I have to stare > at the cancellation code a bit more closely, though. >
As I understand it, cancellation needs support from the underlying filesystem in order to dequeue requests no yet commited to disk.
So far there is no support from the kernel aside from the USB gadget driver which registers its own 'iocb->ki_cancel' method for dequeuing requests.
Sébastien.
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