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From: Bill Huey (hui) <bhuey@lnxw.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Filesystem Development <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 22:17:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050406051740.GA8045@nietzsche.lynx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112750457.14586.53.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:20:57PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> ty den 05.04.2005 Klokka 11:46 (-0400) skreiv Benjamin LaHaise:
> 
> > I can see that goal, but I don't think introducing iosems is the right 
> > way to acheive it.  Instead (and I'll start tackling this), how about 
> > factoring out the existing semaphore implementations to use a common 
> > lib/semaphore.c, much like lib/rwsem.c?  The iosems can be used as a 
> > basis for the implementation, but we can avoid having to do a giant 
> > s/semaphore/iosem/g over the kernel tree.
> 
> If you're willing to take this on then you have my full support and I'd
> be happy to lend a hand.

I would expect also that some RT subgroups would be highly interested in
getting it to respect priority for reworking parts of softirq.

bill


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-30 21:51 [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O Trond Myklebust
2005-03-30 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-30 23:17   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-30 23:44     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-31  0:02       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 22:53     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-01  0:13       ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-01  1:22         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-01 14:12           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-04 15:52             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-04 16:22               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-04 17:56                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-05 15:46                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-06  1:20                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-06  5:17                       ` Bill Huey [this message]
2005-04-06  5:01                     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-07 11:43                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-08 22:39                       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-08 23:31                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-10 14:08                           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-15 16:13                       ` David Howells
2005-04-15 22:42                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-15 23:42                           ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-16 11:12                           ` David Howells
2005-04-16 11:06                         ` David Howells
2005-04-04 16:39               ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31  8:02 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-03-31 12:31   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 17:09     ` Nikita Danilov
2005-03-31 17:22       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 17:32         ` Trond Myklebust

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