[PATCH] Update to libaio?

Zach Brown zach.brown at oracle.com
Tue Jan 8 22:23:44 UTC 2008


> Then you will have to provide an alternative.

If it were up to me, we'd freeze AIO at it's current level of support
and migrate people towards syslets, possibly via posix aio in glibc
depending on their needs.  Yes, this won't happen immediately ;).

> Since AIO now hooks up with eventfd, making it poll()able and not just a 
> novelty, I'd say now is the time for such a thing.  Otherwise it'll be libaio 
> everywhere.

Well, if Jeff is maintaining libaio, I don't see that we have a pressing
problem.

- z




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