On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, [email protected] wrote: > I'm considering using rados callbacks in my application, but the > documentation doesn't include enough information about their context. > If I schedule a callback with rados_aio_create_completion(), from what > context will my callback be called? Will it be called from a signal > handler? Will it be called from a separate thread? If I schedule > multiple simultaneous callbacks, will they each be called from their > own thread or from a single shared callback thread? Perhaps most > importantly, can I call other RADOS API functions from my callback?
The callbacks are currently called from a dedicated callback thread. In particular, it is safe to call back into librados from a callback. I would not rely on them being serialized, though, as that could conceivably change in the future. sage _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
