Re: regarding generic AIO, async syscalls precedent + some benchmarks by lighttpd

2007-02-04 Thread Christopher Smith
Davide Libenzi wrote: Yes, that is some very interesting data IMO. I did not bench the GUASI (userspace async thread library) against AIO, but those numbers show that a *userspace* async syscall wrapper interface performs in the ballpark of AIO. This leads to some hope about the ability to effec

Re: regarding generic AIO, async syscalls precedent + some benchmarks by lighttpd

2007-02-04 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, bert hubert wrote: > >From two comments posted to my "blog" > http://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2007/02/04/a-synchronous-programming > > Excerpted from the diary of Dragonfly BSD, > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/status/diary.shtml > > Remove the asynchronous syscall interfac

regarding generic AIO, async syscalls precedent + some benchmarks by lighttpd

2007-02-04 Thread bert hubert
>From two comments posted to my "blog" http://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2007/02/04/a-synchronous-programming Excerpted from the diary of Dragonfly BSD, http://www.dragonflybsd.org/status/diary.shtml Remove the asynchronous syscall interface. It was an idea before its time. However, keep the