* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the whole point is that the notion of a "register" is wrong in the
> first place. [...]
forget about it then. The thing we "register" is dead-simple:
struct async_head_user {
struct syslet_uatom __user **completion_ring;
unsigned long ring_size_bytes;
unsigned long max_nr_threads;
};
this can be passed in to sys_async_exec() as a second pointer, and the
kernel can put the expected-completion pointer (and the user ring idx
pointer) into its struct atom. It's just a few instructions, and only in
the cachemiss case.
that would make completions arbitrarily split-up-able. No registration
whatsoever. A waiter could specify which ring's events it is interested
in. A 'ring' could be a single-entry thing as well, for a single
instance of pending IO.
Ingo
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