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Jakub Jelinekl writes (as did Ulrich in another note): > RHEL glibc already includes the rtkaio glibc add-on which is librt using > the kernel AIO interface. We were looking for something that could go into the main tree, but given the status below... > Unfortunately, the kernel side is very limited and doesn't have good > support for the things userland POSIX AIO needs (e.g. in the area of > notification and cancellation, or that many things are serialized in > the kernel rather than truely asynchronous; and from what I've heard > the 2.6 aio is even in worse shape than what we used to have in 2.4.x RHEL > kernels). Not being an aio expert myself, I didn't know things were in this shape. I'll pass your opinions here to the team that's proposing the work. ------------------- Mark S. Brown bmark@us.ibm.com
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