From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 14:10:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59850106566B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:10:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-arch@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1035A8FC17 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 14:10:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SwZcj-0003xC-LT for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:10:05 +0200 Received: from 208.85.208.53 ([208.85.208.53]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:10:05 +0200 Received: from atkin901 by 208.85.208.53 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:10:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org From: Mark Atkinson Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:59:17 -0700 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <3CE55F29-A5B2-44A7-8854-1ED38BAE6F16@FreeBSD.org> <201207300931.13116.jhb@freebsd.org> <5016E023.2080108@FreeBSD.org> <201207301558.01623.jhb@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.85.208.53 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120727 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Subject: Re: aio in GENERIC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:10:07 -0000 -----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-----