Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:44:44 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O |
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote: > > This is required in order to allow threads such as rpciod or keventd > itself (for which sleeping may cause deadlocks) to ask the iosem manager > code to simply queue the work that need to run once the iosem has been > granted. That work function is then, of course, responsible for > releasing the iosem when it is done.
I see. I think. Should we be using those aio/N threads for this? They don't seem to do much else...
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