From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751879AbXA3XqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:46:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752064AbXA3XqY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:46:24 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:50194 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751879AbXA3XqU (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:46:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <0E1E87C3-954C-4297-9D6C-E98BC79D68C3@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <00CAB6CF-640D-4449-9CBA-7E52FE9BEC37@oracle.com> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-aio@kvack.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , Benjamin LaHaise , Ingo Molnar Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Zach Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:45:45 -0800 To: Linus Torvalds X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Btw, I noticed that you didn't Cc Ingo. Definitely worth doing. Not > just > because he's basically the normal scheduler maintainer, but also > because > he's historically been involved in things like the async filename > lookup > that the in-kernel web server thing used. Yeah, that was dumb. I had him in the cc: initially, then thought it was too large and lobbed a bunch off. My mistake. Ingo, I'm interested in your reaction to the i386-specific mechanics here (the thread_info copies terrify me) and the general notion of how to tie this cleanly into the scheduler. - z