Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933473AbXBEVoo (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:44:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933478AbXBEVoo (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:44:44 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50126 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933473AbXBEVon (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:44:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:44:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20070205.134442.85686980.davem@davemloft.net> To: davidel@xmailserver.org Cc: zach.brown@oracle.com, mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, bcrl@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 20 From: Davide Libenzi Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:24:34 -0800 (PST) > Yes, no need for the above. We can just host a poll/epoll in an async() > operation, and demultiplex once that gets ready. I can hear Evgeniy crying 8,000 miles away. I strongly encourage a lot of folks commenting in this thread to familiarize themselves with kevent and how it handles this stuff. I see a lot of suggestions for things he has totally implemented and solved already in kevent. I'm not talking about Zach's fibril's, I'm talking about the interface aspects of these discussions. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/