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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."

  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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