Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

[Andre Hedrick]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > > 
> > > The aio functions should NOT use READA/WRITEA. They should just use the
> > > normal operations, waiting for requests.
> > 
> > But then you end with lots of threads blocking in get_request()
> 
> So?
> 
> What the HELL do you expect to happen if somebody writes faster than the
> disk can take?
> 
> You don't lik ebusy-waiting. Fair enough.
> 
> So maybe blocking on a wait-queue is the right thing? Just MAYBE?

Did I miss a portion of the thread?
Is the block layer ignoring the status of a device?

--Andre

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