linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

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Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:48:42 -0800
From:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
To:	Scot McKinley <scot.mckinley@...cle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bert hubert <bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-aio@...ck.org, Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:27:44PM -0800, Scot McKinley wrote:
> Finally, it is agreed that neg-errno is a much better approach for the 
> return code. The threading/concurrency issues associated w/ the current 
> unix errno has always been buggy area for Oracle Networking code.

	As Scot knows, when Oracle started using the current io_submit(2)
and io_getevents(2), -errno was a big win.

Joel

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