Re: [PATCH] [AIO] remove unused aio_run_iocbs()

[Zach Brown]

> Chris Mason's aio pipe patches used these to reduce the large
> number of context switches he was observing when running pipetest.
> Of course aio pipe support hasn't been merged into mainline so far, and hence
> you could argue that we put these back in if/when we hit that problem.

Yeah, and that's trivial.

> But why
> not just put in a comment there for now to ease the confusion ... generally
> I'd rather go a little slow in removing apparently unused code at this
> point when we are churning things up again.

The only thing slower than not removing it after *years* of not being
used would be to never remove it :)

So I don't see any value in keeping it, but I won't make a fight of it
either.

- z
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