Re: [patch] MI root filesystem detection

2012-10-05 Thread Michael van Elst
dyo...@pobox.com (David Young) writes: The MD code should pass the proper information, there is no need to fix up the error in the MI part. You have a patch for that, right? Will you commit it? I thought you wanted to try it before commiting :) Index: x86_autoconf.c

Re: compat_linux and AIO

2012-10-05 Thread David Laight
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:16:38PM +, David Holland wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:01:47PM +, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: I am playing with oracle XE on 6.0_RC2 and ktrace tells me that this requires Linux aio_* system calls. Here is the documentation:

Re: compat_linux and AIO

2012-10-05 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
David Holland dholland-t...@netbsd.org wrote: Getting AIO working natively first would be a good step. :( There is a POSIX AIO spec: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/basedefs/aio.h.html -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org

Re: compat_linux and AIO

2012-10-05 Thread Paul_Koning
On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: Hi I am playing with oracle XE on 6.0_RC2 and ktrace tells me that this requires Linux aio_* system calls. Here is the documentation: http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html Abd the system call man pages:

Re: compat_linux and AIO

2012-10-05 Thread Taylor R Campbell
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:12:54 +0100 From: David Laight da...@l8s.co.uk On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:16:38PM +, David Holland wrote: Getting AIO working natively first would be a good step. :( How does Linux handle aio? ... Some OS (noteably RSX/11M and windows) always do

Re: compat_linux and AIO

2012-10-05 Thread Mouse
Is there any advantage to using aio rather than regular I/O from threads? I$ I suspect this is mostly a question of what you're used to. I find nothing particularly intuitive or unintuitive about either - but I went through my larval phase on VMS, which (like the RSX/11M mentioned upthread)