Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:25:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Non-blocking read |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:27:09AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > By looking at the code (2.3.6), there seems to be no possibility > > to do this. Am I wrong or is it not worth the effort (I might > > disagree) or just impossible? > > > > You probably want "filp->f_flags |= O_NONBLOCK" > > How does this help? Last time I checked, there is _no_ way of doing > non-blocking disk IO in the kernel. >
Yes there is. It is called "asynchronous readahead".
Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
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