From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] sys_indirect system call
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:14:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <473EB0E4.2090708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711151431220.4260@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Uli doesn't care that much about async syscalls, but I think that from a
> kernel standpoint, we'd want to use this same indirect call for async
> scheduling,
Note that I added a flags parameter to sys_indirect in the v3 patch.
This should allow you to add additional functionality like syslets
later. Currently a zero value is enforced. In future nonzero values
could also imply that the function takes additional parameters.
- --
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-17 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-15 16:41 [PATCH 0/4] sys_indirect system call Ulrich Drepper
2007-11-15 22:19 ` Zach Brown
2007-11-15 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-15 23:30 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-11-15 23:40 ` Zach Brown
2007-11-17 9:14 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
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