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Re: glibc-rtkaio.patch
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:42:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: glibc-rtkaio.patch
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On 03/14/2014 10:59 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 03/14/2014 04:36 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Carlos,
>>
>> I just updated my fedora glibc package repo and noticed that it updated
>> this oldish patch. Isn't this something that we should include in glibc
>> proper finally? Or is it too ugly ;) ?
>
> I feel a little old an senile, like we've talked about this before but
> I don't remember the outcome. This could also be the result of the
I don't remember any discussions on the mailing list but also did not
search for one.
> 7.5 month old that sends signals interrupting my sleep with EINTR.
Yeah, kids and sleep ;( Wait a few years, the interrupt rate will go down ;)
> I do not think it is too ugly, but as Roland points out, we need to
> review what is the actual kernel status of rtkaio, what difference
> does it have etc. etc.
>
> I think we should add it as an add-on to be maintained upstream
> that you can enable if you want. However, before doing so I need
> to look at it deeply and figure out why we don't use use aio with
> versioned symbols and remove it.
Sounds like a good idea, thanks,
Andreas
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