Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

[Ingo Molnar]

* Michael K. Edwards <medwards.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2) Facilities for manipulating pools of threadlets, so you can 
> throttle their concurrency, reprioritize them, and cancel them in 
> bulk, disposing safely of any dynamically allocated memory, 
> synchronization primitives, and so forth that they may be holding;

pthread_cancel() [if/once threadlets are integrated into pthreads] ought 
to do that. A threadlet, if it gets moved to an async context, is a 
full-blown thread.

	Ingo
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