Subject: Re: M:N and blocking ops without SA, AIO
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/01/2007 16:44:39
Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
> On Mar 1, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, but I would like to see the kcont interface change somewhat first.
Me too. I'd like to see kcont, softintr, and callouts all use a similar
if not the same callback signature.