Subject: Re: [1/4] kevent: core files.

From: Benjamin LaHaise <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:31:44 -0400

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:08:27AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:44:42PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise ([email-masked]) wrote:
> > > AIO completion approach was designed to be used with process context VFS
> > > update. read/write approach can not cover other types of notifications,
> > > like inode updates or timers.
> > 
> > The completion event is 100% generic and does not need to come from process 
> > context.  Calling aio_complete() from irq context is entirely valid.
> 
> put_ioctx() can sleep.

Err, no, that should definately not be the case.  If it can, someone has 
completely broken aio.

> It is not syscall, but overall design should be analyzed.
> It is possible to use existing ssycalls, kevent design does not care
> about how it's data structures are delivered to the internal
> "processor".

Okay, that's good to hear. =-)

		-ben
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