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

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Message-Id: <B8027EC7-79FA-485B-89AB-87009CA20E40@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:20:31 -0500
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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

> Or we need some sort of enter_context()/leave_context() (adopt mm,  
> files,
> ...) to have a per-CPU kthread to be able to execute the syscall  
> from the
> async() caller context.

I believe that's what Ingo is hoping for, yes.

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