Re: Thread stuck in aioprn

From: David Xu <davidxu_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:11:14 +0800
On Friday 06 October 2006 16:50, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, David Xu wrote:
> >> FYI, this has recurred, so it seems to be an easy problem to trigger.
> >>
> >> Kris
> >
> > can you try attached patch ? it disables support for non-disk files,
> > I suspect the test passed non-disk file handle to aio, and caused
> > the problem.
>
>    I think it must be done as a workaround _only_. What's the point of
> having asynchronous I/O capability for relatively fast HDDs while missing
> this support for other (slow) I/O such as ttys or pipes? This situation
> renders the whole presence of aio almost useless.
>
> Sincerely, Dmitry

We are diagnosing the problem, not trying to remove some capabilities,
I also don't have plan to work on it, I have already been overloaded by
threading work, it is not a trivial work to implement AIO for all I/O
facilities, I believe its amount of work is considerable, and some people
are better to start a new project to implement it.

Regards,
David Xu
Received on Fri Oct 06 2006 - 07:11:21 UTC

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