From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 13 17:39:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECF837B419 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0611.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.101] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Pw5y-0002yY-00; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:39:31 -0800 Message-ID: <3C4236D0.77A21A14@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:39:28 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Doug White , k Macy , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How well does EVFILT_AIO work? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Julian Elischer wrote: > the threads package doesn't do file IO asynchronoulsy > in fact there ahve been several people threatenning to use AIO > to make the threads package to that asychronously too. Which is incredibly funny, if you think about it, since there are two ways to implement a call conversion threads package: 1) Trade a sync call for an async call plus a context switch 2) Trade a blocking call for a non-blocking call plus a context switch So... how do you do a non-blocking aio_wait again? 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message