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Re: aio rework



On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:03:57AM +0100, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
> 
> ...
> > It might be worth looking at how much it actually costs to create
> > an extra thread on a user process that is never going to return
> > to userspace. Since it only needs a ref count on the pmap, it might
> > be relatively cheap.
> 
> Not sure I'm following here. Are you saying that if thread creation is
> cheap we can afford one thread per aio request model?

That was the sudden thought....

        David

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