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Date:      Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:28:34 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vfs_aio.c is still not safe
Message-ID:  <43D825C2.4000004@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <43D812F7.50808@freebsd.org>
References:  <43D6C3A5.4060100@freebsd.org> <86k6coodch.fsf@xps.des.no> <43D812F7.50808@freebsd.org>

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David Xu wrote:

> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>
>> 3) Rewrite the aio code to use kthreads attached to each process, so
>>   problems with one process's aio does not propagate to other
>>   processes.
>>
>>  
>>
> This is not a complete solution, it shifts the problem to another side,
> allow user to kill process.

A kernel thread cannot be "killed" by the user. it can only
agree to kill itself.

>
>> DES
>>  
>>
>
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