Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel patches enabling better POSIX AIO (Was Re: [3/4] kevent: AIO, aio_sendfile) | From | Sébastien Dugué <> | Date | Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:37:54 +0200 |
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On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 15:28 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > > I am wondering about that too. IIRC, the IO_NOTIFY_* constants are not > > > part of the ABI, but only internal to the kernel implementation. I think > > > Zach had suggested inferring THREAD_ID notification if the pid specified > > > is not zero. But, I don't see why ->sigev_notify couldn't used directly > > > (just like the POSIX timers code does) thus doing away with the > > > new constants altogether. Sebestian/Laurent, do you recall? > > > > I suggest to model the implementation after the timer code which does > > exactly what we need. > > Yeah, and if at all possible we want to use just one helper thread for > SIGEV_THREAD notification of timers/aio/etc., so it really should behave the > same as timer thread notification. >
That's exactly what is done in libposix-aio.
Sébastien.
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