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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702131320450.32055@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:24:50 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <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>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system
 call support

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> If this is going to be a generic AIO subsystem:
> 
> - Cancellation of peding request

What about the busy_async_threads list becoming a hash/rb_tree indexed by 
syslet_atom ptr. A cancel would lookup the thread and send a signal (of 
course, signal handling of the async threads should be set properly)?



- Davide


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