Re: read()/readv() only from page cache

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:02:19PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > One further consideration would be to finally implement real buffered
> > I/O in kernel space by something like the above and offloading to
> > workqueues in kernelspace.  I think our workqueues now are way better
> > than any possible user thread pool, although we'd need to find a way to
> > temporarily tie the work threads to a user address space.
> 
> Do you mean real buffered AIO?

Yes.

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