Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:47:17 -0500 | | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | | Subject | Re: aio |
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:13:54PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > I don't think AIO, because of it's non-trivial impact to the tree, is > at all outside the scope of this list. This is in fact the place > where major stuff like AIO is meant to be discussed, not some special > list where only "AIO people" hang out, of course people on that list > will be enthusiastic about AIO!
Well maybe yourself and others should make some comments about it then.
> Frankly, on your other comments, I don't give a rats ass what BSD/OS > people are doing about, nor how highly they rate, Java. That is > neither here nor there. Java is going to be dead in a few years, and > let's just agree to disagree about this particular point ok?
Who cares about Java? What about high performance LDAP servers or tux-like userspace performance? How about faster select and poll? An X server that doesn't have to make a syscall to find out that more data has arrived? What about nbd or iscsi servers that are in userspace and have all the benefits that their kernel side counterparts do?
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