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    SubjectRe: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3
    On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

    > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
    > >
    > > Here we very much agree. The way I'd like it:
    > >
    > > struct async_syscall {
    > > unsigned long nr_sysc;
    > > unsigned long params[8];
    > > long result;
    > > };
    >
    > No, the "result" needs to go somewhere else. The caller may be totally
    > uninterested in keeping the system call number or parameters around until
    > the operation completes, but if you put them in the same structure with
    > the result, you obviously cannot sanely get rid of them.
    >
    > I also don't much like read-write interfaces (which the above would be:
    > the kernel would read most of the structure, and then write one member of
    > the structure).
    >
    > It's entirely possible, for example, that the operation we submit is some
    > legacy "aio_read()", which has soem other structure layout than the new
    > one (but one field will be the result code).

    Ok, makes sense. Something like this then?

    struct async_syscall {
    unsigned long nr_sysc;
    unsigned long params[8];
    long *result;
    };

    And what would async_wait() return bak? Pointers to "struct async_syscall"
    or pointers to "result"?



    - Davide


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