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From:   Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Sep 2019 15:41:01 -0400
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Subject: Re: Why add the general notification queue and its sources
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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:32 PM Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> wrote:
> of course, one advantage of having the tickets kernel side is nfs could
> in theory access them directly, rather than up calling back to userspace...
No, that's not true actually, it's still going to need to go to
userspace to do hairy
context setup i guess...

so 🤷 dunno.