BUILD_FARM_HACKS and vfs_aio_fork

Tue Aug 21 01:52:57 MDT 2012

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:19:30PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I would appreciate to know your thoughts.

In the past, I have made it a #define due to speed concerns.
But as aio_fork is pretty heavy-weight anyway, a flag in the
VFS handle (similar to what the GPFS module does) evaluated
at connect() time and queried on every async read and write
might be appropriate here.

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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