Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks
From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 19:06:46 EST
Linus Torvalds a écrit :
Ok, here's another entry in this discussion.
- IF the system call blocks, we call the architecture-specific
"schedule_async()" function before we even get any scheduler locks, and
it can just do a fork() at that time, and let the *child* return to the
original user space. The process that already started doing the system
call will just continue to do the system call.
Well, I guess if the original program was mono-threaded, and syscall used
fget_light(), we might have a problem here if the child try a close(). So you
may have to disable fget_light() magic if async call is the originator of the
syscall.
Eric
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