From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 3 11:18:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBC7151DB for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id LAA14195; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:18:34 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA26800; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:18:34 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id LAA08045; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:17:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3870F6B6.EC4EE37E@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:21:26 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kip Macy Cc: Scott Hess , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AIO was Re: Kernel threads References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kip Macy wrote: > > > > > The best fix I've thought of thus far (other than async I/O, which I > > understand isn't ready for prime time) would be to have a number of kernel > > Speaking of AIO, which I would really like to use if possible, how > actively maintained is it? The copyright on vfs_aio.c is 1997, suggesting > to me that John Dyson has moved onto other things. It's passively maintained. ;^) I've become a little familiar with the code, and BDE has graciously agreed to review whatever I do to make sure I don't hobble it. If you need help, yell. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message