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Subject: Re: floppy driver multithreaded!!
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Rajiv Malik <rmalik@noida.hcltech.com>
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On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 02:31, Rajiv Malik wrote:
> i was looking at the code of Floppy Driver by Linus, i was wondering the way
> it has been coded !! even Linus has accepted that it can be further improved
> a lot. i am thinking of making it more multithreaded, trying to find out the
> details. any help on it would be highly appreciated.

Uhm, it already is multithreaded.  Kind Of.  That is how a monolithic
kernel ends up working -- the exported floppy interface is threaded to
each running process that uses it.  So each user space thread runs the
the kernel code in its context and you get a result of the floppy driver
being multithreaded.

Then you have the backend...the block and VM layers that obviously
aren't all in the context of a user space application.  The system will
scale fine to your one floppy drive and multiple CPUs.

	Robert Love

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