From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Rajiv Malik <rmalik@noida.hcltech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: floppy driver multithreaded!!
Date: 06 Nov 2001 02:48:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1005032932.812.0.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E04CF3F88ACBD5119EFE00508BBB212154F513@exch-01.noida.hcltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <E04CF3F88ACBD5119EFE00508BBB212154F513@exch-01.noida.hcltech.com>
On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 02:31, Rajiv Malik wrote:
> i was looking at the code of Floppy Driver by Linus, i was wondering the way
> it has been coded !! even Linus has accepted that it can be further improved
> a lot. i am thinking of making it more multithreaded, trying to find out the
> details. any help on it would be highly appreciated.
Uhm, it already is multithreaded. Kind Of. That is how a monolithic
kernel ends up working -- the exported floppy interface is threaded to
each running process that uses it. So each user space thread runs the
the kernel code in its context and you get a result of the floppy driver
being multithreaded.
Then you have the backend...the block and VM layers that obviously
aren't all in the context of a user space application. The system will
scale fine to your one floppy drive and multiple CPUs.
Robert Love
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-06 7:49 UTC|newest]
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2001-11-06 7:31 floppy driver multithreaded!! Rajiv Malik
2001-11-06 7:48 ` Robert Love [this message]
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