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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:49:37 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aio and fd patches
Message-ID:  <19990727034937.10144@hydrogen.fircrest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907270840.BAA01530@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:40:08AM -0700
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.10.9907151412530.13808-100000@rodan.syr.edu> <199907270840.BAA01530@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jul 27:
> > 
> > I'm interested in finding someone to help me get the aio patches I've
> > written committed into -current.  These fixes make the aio routines much
> > more useful for io on sockets than they are now (each io op on a socket
> > blocks an aiod).  This is a bit of a work in progress, but I've been
> > running these patches here for over a month with good performance and
> > no new detriment to stability.  There should be no stability impact on
> > code which doesn't utilize aio routines.
> > 
> > I'm also interested in whether anyone is working to get the patches from
> > Ville-Pertti Keinonen for file descriptor referencing committed.  These
> > are important for aio and other more critical subsystems.
> > 
> > You can see my report of issues in kern/12053.  I somehow managed to
> > include a mangled and outdated version of the patch with that report, so
> > that patch shouldn't be integrated.  An updated patch is available at
> > http://tfeed.maxwell.syr.edu/aio-diff
> 
> If someone else running each of these patch sets is willing to vouch 
> for their direct applyability to -current and their ongoing 
> functionality, I'll commit them immediately.
> 
> Sorry that your work has been basically ignored; it looks like there 
> are no committers actively working on this right now.

I have been meaning to look at these patches, it's just that I haven't
had a -current box to do testing on, but soon (like the end of the
week), I should have a box that I can do testing, and if so, I'll make
sure that these function, and if so, commit them...

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