On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 10:56 +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 11:27 -0700, Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> > skaller wrote:
> > > OK, I see two options here:
> > >
> > > A. Modify the stream typeclass so all stream I/O requires
> > > a job_queue argument.
> > >
> > > B. Make a new type
> > >
>
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 11:27 -0700, Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> skaller wrote:
> > OK, I see two options here:
> >
> > A. Modify the stream typeclass so all stream I/O requires
> > a job_queue argument.
> >
> > B. Make a new type
> >
> > afd_t = fd_t * job_queue
> >
> > Now there are two file types
skaller wrote:
> OK, I see two options here:
>
> A. Modify the stream typeclass so all stream I/O requires
> a job_queue argument.
>
> B. Make a new type
>
> afd_t = fd_t * job_queue
>
> Now there are two file types, one for sync I/O and one
> for async I/O .. but only for posix lol (since Wi
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:06 +1000, skaller wrote:
> I've run into a problem with Async fileio. On Posix,
> the follwing interface is required:
>
> proc faio_write(q: job_queue,
> fd: fd_t, len: &int, buf: address, eof: &bool
> )
> {
> faio_rw(q, fd, len, buf, eof, false); // write
>
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:13 -0400, Chris King wrote:
> On 4/7/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just to make sure we understand: the worker queue is a neutral
> > synchronisation technique: there's a pool of threads which
> > pull jobs of the queue, run them, signal they're finished,
> > a
On 4/7/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to make sure we understand: the worker queue is a neutral
> synchronisation technique: there's a pool of threads which
> pull jobs of the queue, run them, signal they're finished,
> and then run the next one. The pool size is user controlled.
Th
I've run into a problem with Async fileio. On Posix,
the follwing interface is required:
proc faio_write(q: job_queue,
fd: fd_t, len: &int, buf: address, eof: &bool
)
{
faio_rw(q, fd, len, buf, eof, false); // write
}
The 'q' there is a worker_fifo thing. With the current Felix asy
