From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
Cc: "Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:21:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807222142.B26110@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208080314.WAA04821@ccure.karaya.com>; from jdike@karaya.com on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:14:42PM -0500
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:14:42PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> I'm not sure if this makes any sense, but coupling the new aio mechanism with
> something that queues up siginfos might be interesting. It would be a magic
> descriptor that would feed you signals when you read it.
>
> Is that at all sane?
Delivering signals from aio completion is indeed possible. There is
even a field in the iocb structure for doing this in order to provide
complete posix compatibility (well, except for the fact that structure
initialization is enforced).
-ben
--
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-01 20:16 Accelerating user mode linux Alan Cox
2002-08-02 4:40 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-02 9:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 18:28 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-02 17:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-02 22:33 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-02 21:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-03 0:54 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-02 11:34 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-08-02 13:28 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-03 11:38 ` context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode linux] Ingo Molnar
2002-08-03 12:33 ` context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode Alan Cox
2002-08-03 15:29 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-05 13:46 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-05 20:44 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-08-05 22:34 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-06 0:42 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-06 0:16 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-06 2:55 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-06 8:10 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-06 11:20 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-06 11:13 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-06 12:53 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-06 13:04 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-06 14:12 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-06 16:02 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-06 17:42 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-06 18:01 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-08 1:27 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-08 3:14 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-08 2:21 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-08-08 9:03 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2002-08-08 17:19 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-05 22:06 ` Martin Waitz
2002-08-06 0:49 ` Jeff Dike
2002-08-04 6:46 ` context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode linux] Andi Kleen
2002-08-05 5:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-05 5:42 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-08-05 6:37 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-08-05 15:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-05 16:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-05 20:01 ` context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating usermode linux] Oliver Neukum
2002-08-05 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-06 5:31 ` context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode linux] Mark Mielke
2002-08-05 10:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-05 14:59 ` Larry McVoy
2002-08-05 15:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-08-05 15:44 ` Jamie Lokier
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