Re: [RFC] - Some notions that I would like comments on

rochberg@uther.pdl.cs.cmu.edu
14 Jul 1999 03:03:43 -0400

> When a process does a read, the kernel could schedule the I/O and
> return success before it completes. This would allow the process to
> start work before the read has finished.

Take a look at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/fwc/www/osdi99.ps
for an approach to this problem that uses binary rewriting tricks to
do that sort of thing.

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