| Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:22:07 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support |
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> As it might be obvious to some of you, the syslet subsystem takes many > ideas and experience from my Tux in-kernel webserver :) The syslet code > originates from a heavy rewrite of the Tux-atom and the Tux-cachemiss > infrastructure. > > Open issues: > > - the 'TID' of the 'head' thread currently varies depending on which > thread is running the user-space context. > > - signal support is not fully thought through - probably the head > should be getting all of them - the cachemiss threads are not really > interested in executing signal handlers. > > - sys_fork() and sys_async_exec() should be filtered out from the > syscalls that are allowed - first one only makes sense with ptregs, > second one is a nice kernel recursion thing :) I didnt want to > duplicate the sys_call_table though - maybe others have a better > idea.
If this is going to be a generic AIO subsystem:
- Cancellation of peding request
- Davide
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