AIO and some advice needed.

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at Sun.COM
Wed Nov 26 12:30:43 PST 2008


Avinash Lakshman wrote:
> :
>
> Yes I know the position. So in order to avoid convoluted programming 
> what we are trying to do is submit the read request and suspend the 
> continuation. When the completion handler is done we release the 
> continuation to continue with where we left off. Does this sound 
> reasonable? It almost as if sounds like unless the entire system is 
> asynchronous there is not much to gain from AIO. Is my conclusion correct?
In principal this should be fine. Please do feedback your experiences 
with this approach. Asynchronous I/O does require an event driven 
application so it can be awkward to shoehorn into existing code.

-Alan.



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