Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:58:01 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC? Message-ID: <201207301558.01623.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5016E023.2080108@FreeBSD.org> References: <3CE55F29-A5B2-44A7-8854-1ED38BAE6F16@FreeBSD.org> <201207300931.13116.jhb@freebsd.org> <5016E023.2080108@FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday, July 30, 2012 3:27:31 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 30/07/2012 16:31 John Baldwin said the following: > > On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:43:42 am George Neville-Neil wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I was wondering why aio is not yet in GENERIC. Now that it's properly > >> locked and all. > > > > GENERIC does have it as a module so 'kldload aio' or 'aio_load=YES' in > > loader.conf works for folks who need it. > > > > The same could be said about many other drivers that are in GENERIC _kernel_. > So, what was your point? :-) I don't think aio was out of GENERIC because it wasn't locked IIRC, just that it had few users. Is there any popular software that uses it? -- John Baldwin
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