Re: Linux 2.5 / 2.6 TODO (preliminary)

Artur Skawina (skawina@geocities.com)
Sun, 04 Jun 2000 22:40:14 +0200

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> You can do that with a thread from user space. In fact a lot of systems do
> most of their AIO via threads in user space.

hmm, what about stuff like video4linux? AIO would seem to fit the job
well -- fire off a couple of requests and the driver could then dma the
data directly. And no magic ioctls etc.

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