linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702221210170.1356@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:13:27 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, johnpol@....mipt.ru,
	Arjan Van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	hch@...radead.org, akpm@....com.au,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, zach.brown@...cle.com,
	suparna@...ibm.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote:

> The more I think about it, a reasonable solution might actually be to
> use threadlets for disk I/O and pure event based processing for
> networking.  It is two different handling paths and non-unified,
> but that might be the price for good performance :-)

Well, it takes 20 lines of userspace C code to bring *unification* to the 
universe ;)


- Davide


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