Surely, there needs to be a unified polling interface to support single threaded designs.
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:04:31 +0100
> And to be honest, I don't think adding all this code is acceptable
> if it can't replace the existing aio code while keeping the
> interface. So while you interface looks pretty sane the
> implementation needs a lot of work still :)
Networking and disk AIO have significantly different needs.