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Cc: George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC?
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, 15:58-0400, John Baldwin wrote:

> 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?
>
nginx does use it.  Not by default though.

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Maxim Konovalov