Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030192AbXBZKtp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:49:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030193AbXBZKtp (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:49:45 -0500 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:35604 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030192AbXBZKto (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:49:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:47:49 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Davide Libenzi , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Ulrich Drepper , Zach Brown , "David S. Miller" , Suparna Bhattacharya , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3 Message-ID: <20070226104748.GC24284@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20070225183743.GD29821@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070225192112.GA15681@elte.hu> <20070225194645.GB1353@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070225195308.GC15681@elte.hu> <20070226081655.GA25280@elte.hu> <20070226092545.GA4110@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070226095547.GA9485@elte.hu> <20070226103319.GA24284@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070226103517.GA17195@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070226103517.GA17195@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (2ka.mipt.ru [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:48:07 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1207 Lines: 33 On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +0100, Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > > * Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Btw, 'evserver' in the name means 'event server', so you might think > > about changing the name :) > > why should i change the name? The 'outer' loop, which feeds requests to > threadlets, is an epoll based event loop. The inner loop, where all the > application complexity resides, is a threadlet. This is the "more > intelligent queueing" model i talked about in my reply to David 4 days > ago: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/22/180 > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/22/191 :) Ingo, of course it was a joke. Even having main dispatcher as epoll/kevent loop, the _whole_ threadlet model is absolutely micro-thread in nature and not state machine/event. So it does not have events at all, especially with speculations about removing completion notifications - fire and forget model. > Ingo -- Evgeniy Polyakov - 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/