I/O Completion Ports

I/O Completion Ports

Posted Jun 26, 2002 1:22 UTC (Wed) by dank (subscriber, #1865)
Parent article: The Ottawa Kernel Summit, Day Two

FWIW, "I/O Completion Ports" are just a way of getting completion notification from asynchronous I/O requests. Once the kernel supports AIO, it will probably also support completion ports. Whether it will support exactly the I/O Completion Ports windows programmers are familiar with is another question; the scheduling policy associated with Windows IOCP's may be protected by a Microsoft patent. See also kegel.com/c10k.html#aio.

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