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.