Dear LSF committee, I'd like to explicitly request attendance for this discussion :-) Joel On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:27:35AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:19:59AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> > > >> For aio we just need to add additional fields to an existing structure. > > >> > > >> So yeah, I'd be interested in that discussion as well. > > > > Sure, it's easy to start there, but then you eventually end up having to > > add a non-aio interface as well. Let's not take the latter off the > > table. > > I agree that a sync variant should't be ignored, but needing a sync > interface with PI arguments also shouldn't get in the way of adding > support to the aio+dio path. Simply because it's what people use :/. > > > I'm not sure how that's directly related to aio, but ok. If we're going > > to rewrite the aio code, I think Zach's acall would be a good start, at > > least on the API front: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/316806/ > > Yeah, I'm happy to chat about this stuff if people are interested. I > think I'd do things differently today than what was done in that aged > acall prototype. > > - z > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- "You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone http://www.jlbec.org/ jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
