Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
> On Mar 17, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> This is almost exactly what I had in mind.  It is the ioctl that I
>> wanted to optimize away.
>
> I can think of a couple of ways to make it less expensive for the u->k
> notification... but I'll have to stew on it for a bit first...  My
> brain is doing in the direction of a generic message queue description
> / notification API... If we had a generic subsystem, it would be
> reasonable to implement a generic "fast trap" for this on platforms
> that can do it.
>
> Anyway, for now I would suggest "use an ioctl to get your stuff
> working", and then we can always speed it up later..
>
> -- thorpej

Yesterday there was discussion of using a blocking lwp to do it.  I may
investigate that.

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