From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from zimbra.linbit.com (zimbra.linbit.com [212.69.161.123]) by mail09.linbit.com (LINBIT Mail Daemon) with ESMTP id 48433100008C for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 10:40:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.linbit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441681B435C for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 10:40:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zimbra.linbit.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.linbit.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FfzozpatPLiJ for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 10:40:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from soda.linbit (tuerlsteher.linbit.com [86.59.100.100]) by zimbra.linbit.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CB91B435B for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 10:40:42 +0200 (CEST) Resent-Message-ID: <20120530084042.GF4141@soda.linbit> Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by mail09.linbit.com (LINBIT Mail Daemon) with ESMTP id DEED1100008C for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 01:04:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Andi Kleen To: Kent Overstreet References: <1337817771-25038-1-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <1337817771-25038-13-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:54:14 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1337817771-25038-13-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> (Kent Overstreet's message of "Wed, 23 May 2012 17:02:49 -0700") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, yehuda@hq.newdream.net, dm-devel@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, mpatocka@redhat.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, bharrosh@panasas.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, sage@newdream.net, agk@redhat.com, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [Drbd-dev] [PATCH v2 12/14] Closures List-Id: Coordination of development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Kent Overstreet writes: > Asynchronous refcounty thingies; they embed a refcount and a work > struct. Extensive documentation follows in include/linux/closure.h Sounds like you reinvented WTDs? Anyways I don't think this is something that should be in a kernel. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only