From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261210AbVFTLwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:52:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261211AbVFTLwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:52:53 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:24996 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261210AbVFTLwr (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:52:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:31:54 +0530 From: Suparna Bhattacharya To: linux-aio@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcrl@kvack.org, wli@holomorphy.com, zab@zabbo.net, mason@suse.com, ysaito@hpl.hp.com Subject: Pending AIO work/patches Message-ID: <20050620120154.GA4810@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: suparna@in.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Since AIO development is gaining momentum once again, ocfs2 and samba both appear to be using AIO, NFS needs async semaphores etc, there appears to be an increase in interest in straightening out some of the pending work in this area. So this seems like a good time to re-post some of those patches for discussion and decision. Just to help sync up, here is an initial list based on the pieces that have been in progress with patches in existence (please feel free to add/update ones I missed or reflected inaccurately here): (1) Updating AIO to use wait-bit based filtered wakeups (me/wli) Status: Updated to 2.6.12-rc6, needs review (2) Buffered filesystem AIO read/write (me/Ben) Status: aio write: Updated to 2.6.12-rc6, needs review Status: aio read : Needs rework against readahead changes in mainline (3) POSIX AIO support (Bull: Laurent/Sebastian or Oracle: Joel) Status: Needs review and discussion ? (4) AIO for pipes (Chris Mason) Status: Needs update to latest kernels (5) Asynchronous semaphore implementation (Ben/Trond?) Status: Posted - under development & discussion (6) epoll - AIO integration (Zach Brown/Feng Zhou/wli) Status: Needs resurrection ? (7) Vector AIO (aio readv/writev) (Yasushi Saito) Status: Needs resurrection ? On my part, I'll start by re-posting (1) for discussion, and then move to (2). Regards Suparna -- Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India