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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling
    On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Zach Brown wrote:

    > > The normal and most optimal workflow should be a user-space ring-buffer
    > > of these constant-size struct async_syscall entries:
    > >
    > > struct async_syscall ringbuffer[1024];
    > >
    > > LIST_HEAD(submitted);
    > > LIST_HEAD(pending);
    > > LIST_HEAD(completed);
    >
    > I strongly disagree here, and I'm hoping you're not as keen on this now --
    > your reply to Matt gives me hope.
    >
    > As mentioned, that they complete out-of-order leads, at least, to having
    > separate submission and completion rings. I'm not sure a submission ring
    > makes any sense given the goal of processing the calls in submission and only
    > creating threads if it blocks. A simple copy of an array of these input
    > structs sounds fine to me.

    The "result" of one async operation is basically a cookie and a result
    code. Eight or sixteen bytes at most. IMO, before going wacko designing
    complex shared userspace-kernel result buffers, I think it'd be better
    measuring the worth-value of the thing ;)



    - Davide


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