Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:44:25 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Ben LaHaise wrote:
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> > (besides, latency would suck. I bet you're better off waiting for the > > requests if they are all used up. It takes too long to get deep into the > > kernel from user space, and you cannot use the exclusive waiters with its > > anti-herd behaviour etc). > > Ah, but no. In fact for some things, the wait queue extensions I'm using > will be more efficient as things like test_and_set_bit for obtaining a > lock gets executed without waking up a task.
The latency argument is somewhat bogus because there is no problem to check the request queue, in the aio syscalls, and simply fail if its full.
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