Re: Thread model

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:56:47PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:

> The clever way is to identify the particular things in the stack which
> must be saved, and throw the rest away, and then restart the
> continuation with the few things that really matter.  This is what the
> kernel does internally; just look for "continuation" and you can see it.
> You have to identify *each* blocking point, and make a continuation
> structure for it, and so forth.

Indeed. I can't tell how much work it is. (Could you give an estimate?)

But luckily, it doesn't all have to be done in a single sweep. We could
move the servers one by one -- starting with the disk filesystems, as
this is where the issues are manifesting most...

-antrik-