* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What do you think? Do you think it might be possible to aim for a generic "do > system call asynchronously" model instead? > > I'm adding Ingo the to cc, because I think Ingo had a "run this list of system > calls" patch at one point - in order to avoid system call overhead. I don't > think that was very interesting (because system call overhead is seldom all that > noticeable for any interesting system calls), but with the "let's do the list > asynchronously" addition it might be much more intriguing. Ingo, do I remember > correctly that it was you? I might be confused about who wrote that patch, and I > can't find it now. Yeah, it was the whole 'syslets' and 'threadlets' stuff - I had both implemented and prototyped into a 'list directory entries asynchronously' testcase. Threadlets was pretty close to what you are suggesting now. Here's a very good (as usual!) writeup from LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/223899/ Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>