On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:59:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> I'll have to think about this some more. > > > > Any further thoughts on this after a few days worth of pondering? > > Sorry about the delay, with the merge window and me being sick for a > couple of days I didn't get around to this. > > After thinking it over some more, I guess I'm ok with your approach. > The table-driven patch makes me a bit happier, and I guess not very > many people end up ever wanting to do async system calls anyway. > > Are there other users outside of Solace? It would be good to get comments.. I know of quite a few storage/db products that use AIO. The most recent high profile project that have been reporting issues with AIO on XFS is http://www.scylladb.com/. That project is architected around non-blocking AIO for scalability reasons... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html