How to provide Async IO support in a driver

Hi,

I am having trouble getting the aio_read and aio_suspend calls to work
properly with a driver we have written to do DMA transfers via the PCI bus.
I do not know if the driver is properly configured to enable the async
xxxaread cb_ops function.  I have searched high and low and cannot find
anything written on this topic.  Does anyone know under what conditions the
xxxaread cb_ops function is called?  In tracing my drivers activity, even
though I call aio_read from the user process, the xxxread cb_ops is always
called by the kernel.  Although I am able to start the DMA, I am having
trouble getting biodone to properly notify the user process, particularly
when it is called from a timeout routine.

I am running Solaris 8/9.  Any information on how to properly write drivers
that support async io or how to properly time out DMA completion would be
greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Mike

"what calls it" is basically not your problem, as long as you follow the
sun docs on how to do it.

slap

 return (aphysio(yourstrategyfunc, anocancel, dev, B_READ,
                        minphys,aio));

in your aread(9e) function, and that's the end of the story.
just make sure your strategy function works properly





ah.. well "properly" is in the eye of the beholder. cant help you there.
But you dont have to worry specifically about the AIO stuff, as long as
you do the above, I think.