I filed a followup with a patch (against 4.x, but it will probably work
just as well against 3.x, but I don't have a handy way to try it).
-Chris
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > > > The aio_* stuff (I use a custom patched version in 4.x) offers performance
> > > > advantages over select() with large numbers of descriptors. In terms of
> > > > efficiency, I don't have any trouble saturating full-duplex 100mbit link
> > > > with aio routines on a reasonably fast box (PII-400 512MB).
> > > >
> > > > As more work gets done to the aio stuff, there are some potential early
> > > > advantages available to multiprocessor machines (since the program
> > > > 'driving' the aio could run concurrently with the kernel code moving
> > > > network or disk data).
> > > >
> > > > -Chris
> > >
> > > Do you by any change have an idea how to fix PR kern/13075
> > > (signal is not posted for async I/O on raw devices)
> >
> > Yes. There is no code to post the signal unless the job is of the lio
> > variety. Writing a fix took about 15 minutes (including reboot).
> > Extensive testing not included, though the test program provided with the
> > PR now functions.
>
> You plan to file a followup to the PR, I hope. 8)
>
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