Re: Status of AIO

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 17:50:39 EST


On 3/6/06, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Socket AIO is not supported yet, but it is useful to get user requests to
> know there is demand for it.

I don't think the POSIX AIO nor the kernel AIO interfaces are suitable
for sockets, at least the way we can expect network traffic to be
handled in the near future. Some more radical approaches are needed.
I'll have some proposals which will be part of the talk I have at OLS.
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