Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:33:00 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: Status of AIO |
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:53:07PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > I don't think the POSIX AIO nor the kernel AIO interfaces are suitable > for sockets, at least the way we can expect network traffic to be > handled in the near future. Some more radical approaches are needed. > I'll have some proposals which will be part of the talk I have at OLS.
Oh? I've always envisioned that network AIO would be able to use O_DIRECT style zero copy transmit, and something like I/O AT on the receive side. The in kernel API provides a lightweight event mechanism that should work ideally for this purpose.
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