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

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Message-ID: <20070301092805.GI7217@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:28:05 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.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>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:38:06AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@....mipt.ru) wrote:
> > struct async_syscall {
> > 	long *result;
> > 	unsigned long asynid;
> > 	unsigned long nr_sysc;
> > 	unsigned long params[8];
> > };
> 
> Having result pointer as NULL might imply that result is not interested
> in and thus it can be discarded and event async syscall will not be
> returned through aync_wait().
> More flexible is having request flags field in the structure.

Ugh, that is alrasdy implemented in v5.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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