linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel:async function call:introduce async

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 13:58:27 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	tom.leiming@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel:async function call:introduce async_run

On Wed, 13 May 2009 08:33:49 +0800
tom.leiming@...il.com wrote:

> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
> 
> In fact, some async function call does not need to check, async_run
> is right for this kind of function call. Also, async_run is very
> suitable to used to start a thread in atomic context to do somthing,
> for now there is no such kind of kernel api, eg. kthread_run
> can not be started in atomic context.

I don't think it's worth complicating the cookie allocation;
I don't assume that what you're scheduling is going to take a really
long time...

if it does it's better to make a private domain for it.

-- 
Arjan van de Ven 	Intel Open Source Technology Centre
For development, discussion and tips for power savings, 
visit http://www.lesswatts.org
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/