On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > That's why I feel thread creation -- cheap under Linux -- is quite > appropriate for many of these situations.
Maybe that (thread creation) can be done at open(), socket-creation, service request, syscall or whatever event triggers a driver/subsystem to actually queue work into a thread. And when there is a close(), socket-destruction, service completion or whatever these threads can be marked for destruction and destroyed by a timer or even immediately. Regards Ingo Oeser -- If something is getting cheap, it is getting wasted just because it is cheap. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
