Zach Brown <[email protected]> writes:
> This finally does something useful with the notion of being able to schedule
> stacks as fibrils under a task_struct. Again, i386-specific and in need of
> proper layering with archs.
>
> sys_asys_submit() is added to let userspace submit asynchronous system calls.
> It specifies the system call number and arguments. A fibril is constructed for
> each call. Each starts with a stack which executes the given system call
> handler and then returns to a function which records the return code of the
> system call handler. sys_asys_await_completion() then lets userspace collect
> these results.
Do you have any numbers how this compares cycle wise to just doing
clone+syscall+exit in user space?
If the difference is not too big might it be easier to fix
clone+syscall to be more efficient than teach all the rest
of the kernel about fibrils?
-Andi
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