On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Adam Langley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:13 PM, William Chan (陈智昌) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I talked to Darin and he told me that this needs work since it's >> impacting the page cycler times, so I figured I'd pick it up. You >> have a TODO there saying to figure out how to best do async IO. Did >> you ever figure this out? I talked to Darin briefly and decided that >> the simplest thing to do for now is simply to post tasks to the global >> WorkerPool. The global WorkerPool linux implementation looks pretty >> silly and needs work, but it's probably good enough for the page >> cycler. How does this approach sound to you? > > It's not clear if you were considering using POSIX async IO on Linux > or not. Just in case you were: don't. It mostly doesn't work.
LWN has a nice article on the future of async IO on linux here btw. http://lwn.net/Articles/316806/ Unfortunately that's not that useful currently. --Craig --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
