Re: New AIO API

2013-04-16 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 16-04-13 10:48:35, Rusty Russell wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:28:56 -0700 Kent Overstreet > > wrote: > >> Those are the main changes (besides adding attributes, of course) that > >> I've made so far. > >> > >> * Get rid of the parallel syscall interface >

Re: New AIO API

2013-04-15 Thread Rusty Russell
Andrew Morton writes: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:28:56 -0700 Kent Overstreet > wrote: >> Those are the main changes (besides adding attributes, of course) that >> I've made so far. >> >> * Get rid of the parallel syscall interface >> >>AIO really shouldn't be implementing its own slightly

Re: New AIO API

2013-04-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:28:56 -0700 Kent Overstreet wrote: > So, awhile back I posted about an extensible AIO attributes mechanism > I'd been cooking up: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1367969 > > Since then, more uses for the thing have been popping up, but I ran into > a roadblock

New AIO API

2013-04-12 Thread Kent Overstreet
So, awhile back I posted about an extensible AIO attributes mechanism I'd been cooking up: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1367969 Since then, more uses for the thing have been popping up, but I ran into a roadblock - with the existing AIO api, return values for the attributes were goi