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Subject: Re: Thread stuck in aioprn
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On Tuesday 21 November 2006 03:54, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:16:31AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> > On Friday 06 October 2006 08:14, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > FYI, this has recurred, so it seems to be an easy problem to trigger.
> > >
> > > Kris
> >
> > can you try attached patch ? it disables support for non-disk files,
> > I suspect the test passed non-disk file handle to aio, and caused
> > the problem.
> >
> > David Xu
>
> This fix seems to work.
>
> Kris
OK, so there are too choices, fix aio for all I/O facilities or disable aio
for non-disk files, this will make daily usage safe.

Regards,
David Xu