From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 27 3:49:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from metriclient-2.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BAEF14D77 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by metriclient-2.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.8.7) id DAA00497; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990727034937.10144@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:49:37 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Mike Smith Cc: Christopher Sedore , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aio and fd patches References: <199907270840.BAA01530@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199907270840.BAA01530@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:40:08AM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 include a mangled and outdated version of the patch with that report, so 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... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message