kernel based AIO in glibc?

Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de
Sun Mar 9 19:45:00 GMT 2003


On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:34:45PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> AFAIK Ben's kernel level implementation is in current 2.5 kernels.
> >> Can we base now a glibc implementation on this?  Anybody already
> >> working on this?

The glibc for RH AS2.1 contains a patch to use kernel-based AIO on
i386 (not on ia64!).

I can't comment on it's implementation and completenes, though.



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