Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-02-01 Thread Chaitanya Tumuluri
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:25:22AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Being able to track the children of a kiobuf would help with I/O > > cancellation (e.g. to pull sub-ios off their request queues if I/O > > cancellation for the pare

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-02-01 Thread Chaitanya Tumuluri
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 05:34:49PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > I don't see any real advantage for disk IO. The real advantage is that > > > we can have a generic structure that is also usefull in e.g. networking > > > and can lead t

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-02-01 Thread Chaitanya Tumuluri
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:05:15PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:16:15PM +, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > > > > No, and with the current kiobufs it would not make sense, because they > > > > are to