Re: io_submit delay problems revisited

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Dec 23 2006 - 06:13:00 EST


On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 22:16 -0500, Patrick Reynolds wrote:
> I believe that io_submit() blocks when it shouldn't. I have read the two
> recent LKML threads on the subject.

> Any ideas?
>

AIO to files isn't actually asynchronous (with the possible exception of
O_DIRECT opened files).....


> --Patrick
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