On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > No. It gives the ability for a thread to block on a syscall without > > stalling the entire system. Just try using mysqld on a system using libc_r > > and heavy disk IO. You can't select() on a read() from disk. Thats the > > ultimate reason to do it. The SMP parallelism is a bonus. > > Bug in FreeBSD's NBIO implementation. A read() that would result > in page-in needs to queue the request, but return EAGAIN to user > space to indicate the request cannot be satisfied. Making select() > come true for disk I/O after the fault is satisfied is a seperate > issue. Probably need to pass the fd all the way down. >
Please quote the standard that defines this behavior. This is entirely counter to everything that I have ever read on the subject. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
