Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 17:00:27 EST
* Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Open issues:
> If this is going to be a generic AIO subsystem:
>
> - Cancellation of pending request
How about implementing aio_cancel() as a NOP. Can anyone prove that the
kernel didnt actually attempt to cancel that IO? [but unfortunately
failed at doing so, because the platters were being written already.]
really, what's the point behind aio_cancel()?
Ingo
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