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DateThu, 23 Nov 2006 09:24:33 +0100
FromSébastien_Dugué <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm 3/4][AIO] - AIO completion signal notification
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:22:15 -0800
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> wrote:

> >   OK, looking at this, there's something bothering me: io_submit_one() needs
> > a pointer to the user iocb in order to push back the iocb->ki_key to userspace,
> > as well as storing the user_iocb pointer into iocb->ki_obj.
> 
> Why can't it continue to do what it does today?  Both of those uses of
> the user_iocb pointer involve fixed-width fields and don't need compat help.

  Aah, right, thanks.

> 
> >   So I think that some of the logic in io_submit_one() must be moved up to
> > sys_io_submit(), including the aio_get_req() call.
> 
> I don't see why that would be needed.

  Not anymore, indeed.


  Thanks,

  Sébastien.
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