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Date:      Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:56:22 -0800
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master vfs_aio.c
Message-ID:  <752530AB-680C-4CF9-9393-DE581AC25155@canonware.com>
In-Reply-To: <86acdmvejl.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200601220559.k0M5xS5j026930@repoman.freebsd.org> <86acdmvejl.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Jan 23, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>   Log:
>>   Make aio code MP safe.
>
> Thank you!
>
> While you're at it, I'd like to suggest the following:
>
>  - remove the warning in NOTES about AIO being unstable / unsafe; it
>    is no longer true (you may want to double-check with jasone, who
>    added the warning in the first place)

That comment is positively ancient.  IIRC, I put it in shortly before  
the 4.0 release, because simple AIO use would cause panics.  Whatever  
the current state of AIO, surely the comment no longer applies in its  
original sense.

Jason




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