From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:44:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050330154444.02da9765.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112224663.18019.39.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
>
> This is required in order to allow threads such as rpciod or keventd
> itself (for which sleeping may cause deadlocks) to ask the iosem manager
> code to simply queue the work that need to run once the iosem has been
> granted. That work function is then, of course, responsible for
> releasing the iosem when it is done.
I see. I think. Should we be using those aio/N threads for this? They
don't seem to do much else...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-30 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ 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 [this message]
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
[not found] ` <20050404155245.GA4659@in.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <20050404162216.GA18469@kvack.org>
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
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
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