My knowledge here gets thinner... again, what I know:
I am told by IBM people that AIX runs a 'kproc' task for every AIO
request. It does not show in normal 'ps' output (have to use UCB
style 'ps') and looks like a "k"ernel "proc"ess.
Sun boasted improved performance with KAIO in Solaris 2.4, more or
less at the same time when they modularized telnetd and ran that
in kernel as well.
Ciao,
--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>
Linux-i386 kernel-2.1.36 libc-5.4.23 gcc-2.7.2.1 binutils-2.7.0.9