Re: Status of AIO

[Phillip Susi]

I'm sending this again because it looks like the original got lost.  At 
least, I've not seen it show up on the mailing list yet and I sent it 8 
hours ago.

Dan Aloni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to assert the status of AIO under the current version 

I think you mean ascertain.

> of Linux 2.6. However by searching I wasn't able to find any 
> indication about it's current state. Is there anyone using it
> under a production environment?
>
> I'd like to know how complete it is and whether socket AIO is
> adaquately supported.
>
> Thanks,

AFAIK, it is not yet supported by the sockets layer, and the glibc posix
aio apis do NOT use the kernel aio support.  I have done some
experimentation with it by hacking dd, but from what I can tell, it is
not used in any sort of production capacity.


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