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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6
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* Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> wrote:

> > Having async request and response rings would be quite useful, and 
> > most closely match what is going on under the hood in the kernel and 
> > hardware.
> 
> Yeah, but I have lots of competing thoughts about this.

note that async request and response rings are implemented already in 
essence: that's how FIO uses syslets. The linked list of syslet atoms is 
the 'request ring' (it's just that 'ring' is not a hard-enforced data 
structure - you can use other request formats too), and the completion 
ring is the 'response ring'.

	Ingo
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