On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:47:25PM +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-16 > Severity: wishlist > > Recent versions of SuSE (e.g. SuSE 9.1, SLES 9) and Red Hat (RHEL 3AS, > Fedora Core >= 1) distributions provide a support library with glibc to > allow users to make use of the kernel's asynchronous IO interfaces. > This additional library offers a higher performing alternative to the > existing user-space only asynchronous IO support provided by librt. The > kernel AIO support is made available via the 'librtkaio.so' shared > library, which is packaged an addon in the SuSE and Red Hat source RPMs > for glibc.
Note that we only support AIO for direct (unbuffered) I/O to regular files or block devices, but not AIO for networking or the normal buffered file I/O. Thus I don't think this is worthwile, the few users for the specific subset we have (databases mostly) tend to be written to use RedHat or oracles libaio. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
