Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 21:07:53 EST


On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 15:45 -0800, Zach Brown wrote:
> > Btw, I noticed that you didn't Cc Ingo. Definitely worth doing. Not
> > just
> > because he's basically the normal scheduler maintainer, but also
> > because
> > he's historically been involved in things like the async filename
> > lookup
> > that the in-kernel web server thing used.
>
> Yeah, that was dumb. I had him in the cc: initially, then thought it
> was too large and lobbed a bunch off. My mistake.
>
> Ingo, I'm interested in your reaction to the i386-specific mechanics
> here (the thread_info copies terrify me) and the general notion of
> how to tie this cleanly into the scheduler.

Thread info copies aren't such a big deal, we do that for irq stacks
already afaik

Ben.


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