Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965463AbXBFVuk (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:50:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965544AbXBFVuk (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:50:40 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:52527 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965463AbXBFVuj (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:50:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Miller cc: kent.overstreet@gmail.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, zach.brown@oracle.com, mingo@elte.hu, 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 In-Reply-To: <20070206.133140.91442326.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20070206.131631.82049180.davem@davemloft.net> <20070206.133140.91442326.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 18 On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote: > > So the idea is to just run it to completion if it won't block and use > a fibril if it would? That's not how the patches work right now, but yes, I at least personally think that it's something we should aim for (ie the interface shouldn't _require_ us to always wait for things even if perhaps an early implementation might make everything be delayed at first) Linus - 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/