Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933273AbXB1Re2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:34:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933272AbXB1Re2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:34:28 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:45140 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933270AbXB1Re1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:34:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:26:47 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Davide Libenzi , Ulrich Drepper , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Zach Brown , Evgeniy Polyakov , "David S. Miller" , Suparna Bhattacharya , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3 Message-ID: <20070228172647.GA10736@elte.hu> References: <20070221211355.GA7302@elte.hu> <20070221233111.GB5895@elte.hu> <45DCD9E5.2010106@redhat.com> <20070222074044.GA4158@elte.hu> <20070228094522.GA17716@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: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.1.7 -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: 745 Lines: 18 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > [...] The only way it would buy us a lot is to change the linked lists > dynamically (ie add new events at the end while old events are still > executing), [...] that's quite close to what Jens' FIO plugin for syslets (engines/syslet-rw.c) does currently: it builds lists of syslets as IO gets submitted, batches them up for some time and then sends them off. It is a natural next step to do this for in-flight syslets as well. 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/