On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > nr_events is technically the number of completion events that can > be stored in the completion ring. The wording of the man page: > "capable of receiving at least nr_events" > seems dubious to me, only because I worry that folks might interpret > that to mean nr_events total, instead of nr_events concurrently. > > Further, I've added information on where to find the per-user limit > on nr_events, /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr. Let me know if you think that > is not relevent. All looks good to me. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/io_setup.2 | 5 +++-- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/io_setup.2 b/man2/io_setup.2 > index 2a541bf..8527b80 100644 > --- a/man2/io_setup.2 > +++ b/man2/io_setup.2 > @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES. > The > .BR io_setup () > system call > -creates an asynchronous I/O context capable of receiving > +creates an asynchronous I/O context capable of concurrently processing > at least \fInr_events\fP. > The > .I ctx_idp > @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ For the failure return, see NOTES. > .SH ERRORS > .TP > .B EAGAIN > -The specified \fInr_events\fP exceeds the user's limit of available events. > +The specified \fInr_events\fP exceeds the user's limit of available events, > +as defined in /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr. > .TP > .B EFAULT > An invalid pointer is passed for \fIctx_idp\fP. > -- > 1.7.1 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
