Subject: Re: M:N and blocking ops without SA, AIO
To: Mindaugas R. <rmind@NetBSD.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/01/2007 17:22:50
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:19:56PM +0200, Mindaugas R. wrote:
>
> Well, I am implementing this model, right now. What would you suggest as a
> long-time solution?
Kernel continuations. These weren't very useful for a long time because
they required generic softint support, and some ports didn't have it. But
now that all ports are required to, we could use kcont(9) for many things.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
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