Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423090AbXBUX3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:29:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423269AbXBUX3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:29:22 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:50550 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423090AbXBUX3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:29:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:24:07 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Michael K. Edwards" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Ulrich Drepper , Zach Brown , Evgeniy Polyakov , "David S. Miller" , Suparna Bhattacharya , Davide Libenzi , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3 Message-ID: <20070221232407.GA5895@elte.hu> References: <20070221211355.GA7302@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -5.3 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-5.3 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 18 * Michael K. Edwards wrote: > 2) Facilities for manipulating pools of threadlets, so you can > throttle their concurrency, reprioritize them, and cancel them in > bulk, disposing safely of any dynamically allocated memory, > synchronization primitives, and so forth that they may be holding; pthread_cancel() [if/once threadlets are integrated into pthreads] ought to do that. A threadlet, if it gets moved to an async context, is a full-blown thread. Ingo - 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/