* floppy driver multithreaded!!
@ 2001-11-06 7:31 Rajiv Malik
2001-11-06 7:48 ` Robert Love
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From: Rajiv Malik @ 2001-11-06 7:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
hi,
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.
thanx in advance.
Best Regards,
rajiv.
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* Re: floppy driver multithreaded!!
2001-11-06 7:31 floppy driver multithreaded!! Rajiv Malik
@ 2001-11-06 7:48 ` Robert Love
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From: Robert Love @ 2001-11-06 7:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rajiv Malik; +Cc: linux-kernel
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
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