Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:59:17 -0700 From: Mark Atkinson <atkin901@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC? Message-ID: <jvbcnl$j89$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208011145330.46709@mp2.macomnet.net> References: <3CE55F29-A5B2-44A7-8854-1ED38BAE6F16@FreeBSD.org> <201207300931.13116.jhb@freebsd.org> <5016E023.2080108@FreeBSD.org> <201207301558.01623.jhb@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208011145330.46709@mp2.macomnet.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/2012 00:46, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > 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. > Samba can actually get a huge performance boost from using it. There was something broken kernel wise the last time I tried to use it in -current, but I don't recall what that was. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAZNjUACgkQrDN5kXnx8ybBRgCff6AuJgd0D2sk2mbZ/Yih1LBP 1HwAoI+fuuQLx11sq41ajQ/TuNpj6mwy =XBI+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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