Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

[Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> When parallelising "real work", I absolutely agree with you: we should use 
> threads. But you need to look at what it is we parallelize here, and ask 
> yourself why we're doing what we're doing, and why people aren't *already* 
> just using a separate thread for it.

Because its a pain in the arse and because its very hard to self tune. If
you've got async_anything then the thread/fibril/synchronous/whatever
decision can be made kernel side based upon expected cost and other
tradeoffs, even if its as dumb as per syscall or per syscall/filp type
guessing.

Alan
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