Re: [Coder-Com] Re: PROBLEM: high system usage / poor SMPnetwork performance

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:29:25 +0100


On February 4, 2002 07:26 am, Aaron Sethman wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > In an effort to somehow control the mushrooming number of IO interface
> > strategies, why not take a look at the work Ben and Suparna are doing in aio,
> > and see if there's an interface mechanism there that can be repurposed?
>
> When AIO no longer sucks on pretty much every platform on the face of the
> planet I think people will reconsider.

What is the hang, as you see it?

> In the mean time, we've got to
> deal with that is there. That leaves us writing for at least 6 very
> similiar, I/O models with varying attributes.

This is really an unfortunate situation.

-- 
Daniel
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