Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:14:19 -0700 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [AIO] remove unused aio_run_iocbs() |
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> Chris Mason's aio pipe patches used these to reduce the large > number of context switches he was observing when running pipetest. > Of course aio pipe support hasn't been merged into mainline so far, and hence > you could argue that we put these back in if/when we hit that problem.
Yeah, and that's trivial.
> But why > not just put in a comment there for now to ease the confusion ... generally > I'd rather go a little slow in removing apparently unused code at this > point when we are churning things up again.
The only thing slower than not removing it after *years* of not being used would be to never remove it :)
So I don't see any value in keeping it, but I won't make a fight of it either.
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