> When parallelising "real work", I absolutely agree with you: we should use > threads. But you need to look at what it is we parallelize here, and ask > yourself why we're doing what we're doing, and why people aren't *already* > just using a separate thread for it.
Because its a pain in the arse and because its very hard to self tune. If you've got async_anything then the thread/fibril/synchronous/whatever decision can be made kernel side based upon expected cost and other tradeoffs, even if its as dumb as per syscall or per syscall/filp type guessing. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
