On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:53:07PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.
Oh? I've always envisioned that network AIO would be able to use O_DIRECT
style zero copy transmit, and something like I/O AT on the receive side.
The in kernel API provides a lightweight event mechanism that should work
ideally for this purpose.
-ben
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