Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

Ingo Molnar
2007-02-28T17:34:28Z

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> [...] The only way it would buy us a lot is to change the linked lists
> dynamically (ie add new events at the end while old events are still
> executing), [...]

that's quite close to what Jens' FIO plugin for syslets
(engines/syslet-rw.c) does currently: it builds lists of syslets as IO
gets submitted, batches them up for some time and then sends them off.
It is a natural next step to do this for in-flight syslets as well.

Ingo