Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:10:58 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, suparna@in.ibm.com,
       Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>, linux-aio@kvack.org,
       Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: kvm aio wishlist
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On Tue, Nov 25 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps a variant of syslet, that is kernel-only, and does:
> >
> > - always allocate a new kernel stack at io_submit() time, but not a 
> >   new thread
> 
> such a N:M threading design is a loss - sooner or later we arrive to a 
> point where people actually start using it and then we want to 
> load-balance and schedule these entities.
> 
> So i'd suggest the kthread based async engine i wrote for syslets. It 
> worked well and for kernel-only entities it schedules super-fast - it 
> can do up to 20 million events per second on a 16-way box i'm testing 
> on. The objections about syslets were not related to the scheduling of 
> it but were mostly about the userspace API/ABI: you dont have to use 
> that.

Still unsure why that stuff never got anywhere. Do you have a pointer to
the latest posting?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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