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On Sun, 17 May 2009 14:03:58 -0700,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> there are some very good reasons to have the option to wait for all;
> module unloading comes to mind for example.

So we would need async_run_synchronize() as something that waits on the
special domain for those cases...

> 
> I'd not like it to automatically punt all async "inatomic" work to a
> separate space; that should be an option for the caller.

I think the idea is only to push the "simple" cases to that domain; a
normal "inatomic" function that allows a domain to be specified should
be added as well.