Re: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx intothe kernel

From: Luben Tuikov
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 08:55:17 EST


On 09/30/05 19:42, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> On 2005-10-01, at 00:01, Luben Tuikov wrote:
>
>>Why should synchronization between Process A and Process B
>>reading storage attributes take place in the kernel?
>>
>>They can synchronize in user space.
>
>
> In a mandatory and transparent way? How?

Futex, userspace mutex, etc. All through a user
space library interface.

Luben

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