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

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Message-Id: <8CF4BE18-8EEF-4ACA-A4B4-B627ED3B4831@oracle.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:41:31 -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

> The "result" of one async operation is basically a cookie and a result
> code. Eight or sixteen bytes at most.

s/basically/minimally/

Well, yeah.  The patches I sent had:

struct asys_completion {
         long            return_code;
         unsigned long   cookie;
};

That's as stupid as it gets.

> IMO, before going wacko designing
> complex shared userspace-kernel result buffers, I think it'd be better
> measuring the worth-value of the thing ;)

Obviously, yes.

The potential win is to be able to have one place to wait for  
collection from multiple sources.  Some of them might want more data  
per event.  They can always indirect out via a cookie pointer,  sure,  
but at insanely high message rates (10gige small messages) one might  
not want that.

See also: the kevent thread.

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