Re: normal I/O and sync I/O

2008-03-26 Thread Adil Mujeeb
Hi, On 3/27/08, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:10:14 +0530 > "Vijay Chauhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what is asynchronous read/write operation? How it is different from > > normal read/write operation? > > Normally i have seen that the file read/write ope

Re: normal I/O and sync I/O

2008-03-26 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:10:14 +0530 "Vijay Chauhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is asynchronous read/write operation? How it is different from > normal read/write operation? > Normally i have seen that the file read/write operation is set to > do_sync_read/write which in turns call to aio_rea

normal I/O and sync I/O

2008-03-25 Thread Vijay Chauhan
Hi list, what is asynchronous read/write operation? How it is different from normal read/write operation? Normally i have seen that the file read/write operation is set to do_sync_read/write which in turns call to aio_read/write. So I could not able understand the difference. TIA, Vijay -- To uns