Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

[Andi Kleen]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> I tend to agree.  Note that there is one thing we should be doing one
> one day (not only if we want to use it for aio) is to make kernel threads
> more lightweight.  Thereéis a lot of baggae we keep around in task_struct
> and co that only makes sense for threads that have a user space part and
> aren't or shouldn't be needed for a purely kernel-resistant thread.

I suspect you will get a lot of this for free from the current namespace
efforts.

-Andi
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