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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:25:56 -0800
From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: kvm aio wishlist
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> Still unsure why that stuff never got anywhere.

Changing the tid of submitting tasks makes it unsuitable for sys_io_*()
or posix aio users as it stands.  Maybe we could swap tids on the
switch, but we'd probably then have to audit the life time of tid ->
task_struct users in the kernel.

And there's still the question of what ptrace is supposed to do.

- z
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