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    SubjectRe: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O
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    fr den 08.04.2005 Klokka 18:39 (-0400) skreiv Benjamin LaHaise:

    > On the aio side of things, I introduced the owner field in the mutex (as
    > opposed to the flag in Trond's iosem) for the next patch in the series to
    > enable something like the following api:
    >
    > int aio_lock_mutex(struct mutex *lock, struct iocb *iocb);

    Any chance of a more generic interface too?

    iocbs are fairly high level objects, and so I do not see them helping to
    resolve low level filesystem problems such as the NFSv4 state cleanup.

    Cheers,
    Trond

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    Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

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