* E.B. Dreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010630 22:51] wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:28:29 -0500
> > From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > Can you point to some specific PRs about this or crashdumps before
> > (or at least while) taking pot shots at the AIO implementation?
> 
> In the mean time, until somebody can substantiate that claim... is AIO SMP
> safe?  I see that aiocb.aio_buf is declared as "volatile", so I would
> presume so.
> 
> I just want to be sure that, if an aio call runs on one CPU, another CPU
> can access *aio_buf and be 100% certain that the data are coherent.
>
 
It should be, if you experience any problems please let us know.

> aio_buf = mmap() using MAP_HASSEMAPHORE -- good idea, bad idea, pointless?

Pointless I think.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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