Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932474Ab2EYWyR (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 18:54:17 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:48919 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756185Ab2EYWyP (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 18:54:15 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,351,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="148592441" From: Andi Kleen To: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, agk@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, bharrosh@panasas.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, mpatocka@redhat.com, sage@newdream.net, yehuda@hq.newdream.net Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] Closures References: <1337817771-25038-1-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <1337817771-25038-13-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:54:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1337817771-25038-13-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> (Kent Overstreet's message of "Wed, 23 May 2012 17:02:49 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 595 Lines: 18 Kent Overstreet writes: > Asynchronous refcounty thingies; they embed a refcount and a work > struct. Extensive documentation follows in include/linux/closure.h Sounds like you reinvented WTDs? Anyways I don't think this is something that should be in a kernel. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- 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/