Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751091AbXBMVYz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:24:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751092AbXBMVYz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:24:55 -0500 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:4577 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751091AbXBMVYy (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:24:54 -0500 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:24:50 -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: 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: 609 Lines: 20 On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > If this is going to be a generic AIO subsystem: > > - Cancellation of peding request What about the busy_async_threads list becoming a hash/rb_tree indexed by syslet_atom ptr. A cancel would lookup the thread and send a signal (of course, signal handling of the async threads should be set properly)? - 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/