Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:31:40 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:28:34 -0800 (PST)
> Yeah, in 1% of all cases it will block, and you'll want to wait for them. > Maybe the kevent queue works then, but if it needs any more setup than the > nonblocking case, that's a big no.
So the idea is to just run it to completion if it won't block and use a fibril if it would?
kevent could support something like that too. - 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/
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