Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Feb 2001 14:13:11 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > > The aio functions should NOT use READA/WRITEA. They should just use the > > normal operations, waiting for requests. > > But then you end with lots of threads blocking in get_request()
So?
What the HELL do you expect to happen if somebody writes faster than the disk can take?
You don't lik ebusy-waiting. Fair enough.
So maybe blocking on a wait-queue is the right thing? Just MAYBE?
Linus
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