On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 05:36:26PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > > The only situation you have to worry about is when the ringbuffer fills > > up and stuff goes on the list, and then completions completely stop - > > this should be a rare enough situation that maybe we could just hack > > around it with a timer that gets flipped on when the list isn't empty. > > Right. And this is when we hopefully realize that we're adding overhead > and complexity (how long's the timer? always fire it? MAKE IT STOP) > and are actually making the system worse, not better.
Can still prototype it, and if it's that ugly... I throw away code all the time :P > > Also, for this to be an issue at all, _all_ the reaping would have to be > > done from userspace - since existing libaio doesn't do that, there may > > not be any code out there which triggers it. > > And there may be. We default to not breaking interfaces. Seriously. All the more reason to think about it now so we don't screw up the next interfaces :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
