Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:46:12 +0100 (CET) | From | Mikulas Patocka <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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> > > How do you write high-performance ftp server without threads if select > > > on regular file always returns "ready"? > > > > Select can work if the access is sequential, but async IO is a more > > general solution. > > Even async IO (ie aio_read/aio_write) should block on the request queue if > its full in Linus mind.
This is not problem (you can create queue big enough to handle the load).
The problem is that aio_read and aio_write are pretty useless for ftp or http server. You need aio_open.
Mikulas
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