Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:33:39 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] sys_indirect system call |
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Zach Brown wrote: > > I think we can use this to pass per-syscall syslet data to the > scheduler.
Yes, I mentioned this to Ulrich as one of the things that would make sense.
Uli doesn't care that much about async syscalls, but I think that from a kernel standpoint, we'd want to use this same indirect call for async scheduling, rather than have two separate interfaces (because async scheduling will want to have all the same flags intefaces for open/socket/etc *too* and a doubly-indirect setup would be insanity!)
And it definitely fits the bill as a really simple syslet model for the trivial case of doing just single system calls asynchronously.
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