> Ken uses the other (superior!) way of implementing ringbuffers: the head > and tail pointers (the naming of which AIO appears to have reversed) are > not constrained to the ringsize - they are simply allowed to wrap through > 0xfffffff.
A-ha! That sure sounds great. I'd be happy to see the kernel side fs/aio.c ring management move in that direction, sure, with a specific patch to do that. I get less excited when we talk about changing the index semantics as part of supporting serialization of the ring with userspace. - z - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/