Re: kvm aio wishlist

[Ingo Molnar]

* Zach Brown <zach.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Still unsure why that stuff never got anywhere.
> 
> Changing the tid of submitting tasks makes it unsuitable for 
> sys_io_*() or posix aio users as it stands.  Maybe we could swap 
> tids on the switch, but we'd probably then have to audit the life 
> time of tid -> task_struct users in the kernel.

doesnt look like a big thing affecting the fastpath materially.

> And there's still the question of what ptrace is supposed to do.

debug-only, we sure can work something out.

	Ingo
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