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Re: driver concurrency



On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:02:39PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> How many drivers are there (hardware-level drivers, not things like
> raidframe) where it really matters for more than one lwp to be able to
> be running (not stopped) in the driver at once?
> 
> I'm thinking probably network cards but not much else.

disk controllers which supports lots of concurent transactions could
probably benefit from this too.

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