Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> (i definitely remember having written code for that too, but i cannot 
> find that in the archives. hm.) In theory we could avoid _all_ 
> fd-bitmap overhead as well and use a per-process list/pool of struct 
> file buffers plus a maximum-fd field as the 'non-linear fd allocator' 
> (at the price of only deallocating them at process exit time).

btw., this also allows mostly-lockless fd allocation, which would 
probably benefit threaded apps too. (we can just recycle it from a 
per-CPU list of cached fds for that process)

	Ingo
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