Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751009AbXBMUWK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:22:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751021AbXBMUWK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:22:10 -0500 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:4238 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751011AbXBMUWJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:22:09 -0500 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:22:07 -0800 (PST) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Ingo Molnar cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Ulrich Drepper , Zach Brown , Evgeniy Polyakov , "David S. Miller" , Benjamin LaHaise , Suparna Bhattacharya , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support In-Reply-To: <20070213142010.GA638@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20070213142010.GA638@elte.hu> X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc 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: 1255 Lines: 36 On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > As it might be obvious to some of you, the syslet subsystem takes many > ideas and experience from my Tux in-kernel webserver :) The syslet code > originates from a heavy rewrite of the Tux-atom and the Tux-cachemiss > infrastructure. > > Open issues: > > - the 'TID' of the 'head' thread currently varies depending on which > thread is running the user-space context. > > - signal support is not fully thought through - probably the head > should be getting all of them - the cachemiss threads are not really > interested in executing signal handlers. > > - sys_fork() and sys_async_exec() should be filtered out from the > syscalls that are allowed - first one only makes sense with ptregs, > second one is a nice kernel recursion thing :) I didnt want to > duplicate the sys_call_table though - maybe others have a better > idea. If this is going to be a generic AIO subsystem: - Cancellation of peding request - Davide - 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/