Re: New AIO API

[Rusty Russell]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:28:56 -0700 Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Those are the main changes (besides adding attributes, of course) that
>> I've made so far. 
>> 
>>  * Get rid of the parallel syscall interface 
>> 
>>    AIO really shouldn't be implementing its own slightly different
>>    syscalls; it should be a mechanism for doing syscalls asynchronously.
>
> Yes.  We got about a twelfth of the way there many years ago
> (google("syslets")) but it died.  A shame.

Yeah, letting the current process keep waiting and creating a new one
which returns is a fascinating idea, but you really need to swizzle the
PIDs so that the "new" one is identical to the old.  Otherwise the API
is unbearable...

Good luck!
Rusty.
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