Re: [PATCH 20/22] AIO poll

[William Lee Irwin III]

Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> What are the barriers to getting the AIO poll support into the kernel?  I
>> think if we have AIO support at all, it makes sense to add this.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 07:02:50PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> I second the motion. I don't see how one can write a server which uses 
> both networking and block aio without aio poll.

I just did it for OLS. The answer is busywait. i.e. 100% cpu. This is
because you can't use timeouts unless they're unified.


-- wli
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