Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:13:50 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@trondhjem.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for
 asynchronous I/O
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Trond Myklebust <trondmy@trondhjem.org> wrote:
>
>  on den 30.03.2005 Klokka 18:17 (-0500) skreiv Trond Myklebust:
>  > > Or have I misunderstood the intent?  Some /* comments */ would be appropriate..
>  > 
>  > Will do.
> 
>  OK. Plenty of comments added that will hopefully clarify what is going
>  on and how to use the API. Also some cleanups of the code.

Ah, so that's what it does ;)

I guess once we have a caller in-tree we could merge this.  I wonder if
there's other existing code which should be converted to iosems.

You chose to not use the aio kernel threads?

Does iosem_lock_and_schedule_function() need locking?  It nonatomically
alters *lk_state.
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