Re: New brainfart for threaded VFS and data passing between threads.

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 2:58 PM -0800 3/30/04, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Now when I heard about this huge performance increase I of
>     course immediately decided that DragonFly needed this feature
>     to, and so we now have it for DFly pipes.
>
> 			Light Bulb goes off in head
>
>     But it also got me to thinking about a number of other sticky
>     issues that we face, especially in our desire to thread major
>     subsystems (...), and also issues related to ...
>
>     This idea of using SF_BUF's and making the target responsible
>     for mapping the data has changed everything.  Consider what
>     this can be used for:

          [...list of several items...]

>     And many other things.  XIO is the nutcracker, and the nut is
>     virtually all the remaining big-ticket items we need to cover
>     DragonFly.
>
>     This is very exciting to me.

This sound very promising.  It will be interesting to see how it
works out.  It seems pretty odd to call that a "brainfart" though,
sounds more like an "major inspiration" to me...

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