Re: fwd: Scheduler activations (IIRC) question

Jamie Lokier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.comp.lib.phil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dan Kegel wrote:
> >I'm doing the same thing that folks who use epoll() are doing: lots of
> >state machines, few stacks.  Not all my state machines are I/O
> >related; some of them are more like scheduled objects in a game or
> >network stack.
> 
> There are several userspace libraries that wrap around epoll
> and add a priority queue of wakeup timers, fwiw, so at least
> for the scheduled objects, no new magic is required.  But that
> doesn't help with disk I/O, which was your real thrust, I think.
> 
> I'll let the AIO experts address that...

Agreed.  Filesystem I/O (open blocks over NFS, too) is my real thrust.

-- Jamie
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