linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support

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Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:24:19 +0100
From:	bert hubert <bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl>
To:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Cc:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:58:48AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> not present is mandatory).  I have looked into exactly this approach, and 
> it's only cheaper if the code is incomplete.  Linux's native threads are 
> pretty damned good.

Cheaper in time or in memory? Iow, would you be able to queue up as many
threads as syslets?

	Bert

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