Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I could implement a kernel patch to provide a WorkToDo scheduling
> > subsystem, and submit it -- I'd rather just explain to you how these
> > things work, and you would probably know better than I where to plug
> > this in.
>
> Its actually basically been implemented in some of the sparc work - there
> was an asyncd for doing asynchronously queued tasks.
>
Actually, WorkToDo's are different. I am writing, at this moment, a
complete description of the WorkToDo optimization, and will post it
within the hour, since it's clear I failed utterly in describing this
properly to folks. I think you'll find it very interesting. Back to
work I go.
:-)
Jeff
> Alan
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