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Re: kernel based AIO in glibc?
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>, GNU libc hacker <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 20:45:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: kernel based AIO in glibc?
- References: <u8el5g6e5n.fsf@gromit.moeb> <3E6B7D56.4010708@redhat.com> <u8vfys2v1m.fsf@gromit.moeb>
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:34:45PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com> writes:
>
> > Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> AFAIK Ben's kernel level implementation is in current 2.5 kernels.
> >> Can we base now a glibc implementation on this? Anybody already
> >> working on this?
The glibc for RH AS2.1 contains a patch to use kernel-based AIO on
i386 (not on ia64!).
I can't comment on it's implementation and completenes, though.