From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 28 10:40:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAAF37B41F; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBSImKF13265; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112281848.fBSImKF13265@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, alc@freebsd.org, tegge@freebsd.org, jlemon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loadable aio In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Dec 2001 00:32:12 CST." <20011227003212.Z91594@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:48:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've done most of the gruntwork of making AIO a loadable system. > > I'd appreciate some feedback and testing, especially since I know > of no programs which use AIO. Where's the demand-load of the aio module? Are you going to trap ENOSYS in the libc side of things? > Please, please, please give this some testing. I'd really like > to get it committed, but I really need testers and concensus > if I've done it the right way or not. I also hope this makes > it more convient for you guys in the future (for adding > features/debugging aio) It looks about right; I think you might be able to handle unloading more cleanly if you keep track of processes that have called aio_onceonly (and as you mentioned, lock out newcomers at that point). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message