On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:44 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Before we spend too much time cleaning up and merging into mainline - > > I would like an agreement that what we add is good enough for glibc > > POSIX AIO. > > I haven't seen a description of the interface so far. Would be good if > it existed. But I briefly mentioned one quirk in the interface about > which Suparna wasn't sure whether it's implemented/implementable in the > current interface.
Sebastien, could you provide a description of interfaces you are adding ? Since you did all the work, it would be appropriate for you to do it :) > If a lio_listio call is made the individual requests are handle just as > if they'd be issue separately. I.e., the notification specified in the > individual aiocb is performed when the specific request is done. Then, > once all requests are done, another notification is made, this time > controlled by the sigevent parameter if lio_listio. > > > Another feature which I always wanted: the current lio_listio call > returns in blocking mode only if all requests are done. In non-blocking > mode it returns immediately and the program needs to poll the aiocbs. > What is needed is something in the middle. For instance, if multiple > read requests are issued the program might be able to start working as > soon as one request is satisfied. I.e., a call similar to lio_listio > would be nice which also takes another parameter specifying how many of > the NENT aiocbs have to finish before the call returns. Looks reasonable. Thanks, Badari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
