linux-kernel - [patchset] Syslets/threadlets, generic AIO support, v4

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Message-ID: <20070224074111.GA7599@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:41:11 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	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>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [patchset] Syslets/threadlets, generic AIO support, v4


this is the v4 release of the syslet/threadlet subsystem:

    http://redhat.com/~mingo/syslet-patches/

v4 is a smaller update than v3 (so i wont send out the full queue to 
lkml - see the broken out queue in the patches-v4 directory at the URL 
above). Changes since v3:

- the threadlet API changed: the sys_async_threadlet() syscall now takes
  a 'completion event' pointer, and auto-completes it into the
  completion ring. I've updated the test-threadlet.c code to make use of
  it. So completion of threadlets and syslets is quite similar now -
  sharing even more infrastructure. (To get true pthread compatibility a
  sys_exit() driven CLEARTID completion method will be added too in the
  future).

- a small performance fix for syslet rescheduling. The syslet ABI has
  not changed.

- test-threadlet.c fixes a thread stack leak, and the other tests too
  have a number of small fixes and cleanups.

	Ingo
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