Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:48:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, alc@freebsd.org, tegge@freebsd.org, jlemon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loadable aio Message-ID: <200112281848.fBSImKF13265@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Dec 2001 00:32:12 CST." <20011227003212.Z91594@elvis.mu.org>
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> I've done most of the gruntwork of making AIO a loadable system.
>
> I'd appreciate some feedback and testing, especially since I know
> of no programs which use AIO.
Where's the demand-load of the aio module? Are you going to trap ENOSYS
in the libc side of things?
> Please, please, please give this some testing. I'd really like
> to get it committed, but I really need testers and concensus
> if I've done it the right way or not. I also hope this makes
> it more convient for you guys in the future (for adding
> features/debugging aio)
It looks about right; I think you might be able to handle unloading more
cleanly if you keep track of processes that have called aio_onceonly (and
as you mentioned, lock out newcomers at that point).
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