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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] What happened on lib9p?
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:38:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b794642dfa8fa0a82fc7db52d10ebce9@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <381418fabd33474b4bdb5beb493d408c@felloff.net>

> i used this to make usb drivers multithreaded. usb devs can
> be slow to respond or sometimes even hang. as the filesystem is
> bound onto /dev, a hanging usb device would hang all walks
> on /dev making the system unusable with a single threaded
> implementation. srvrelease()/srvacquire() made these changes
> trivial todo.

cool!

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-20 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-20  9:45 kokamoto
2014-04-20 11:31 ` erik quanstrom
2014-04-20 15:27   ` cinap_lenrek
2014-04-20 15:38     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-04-21  8:19     ` kokamoto
2014-04-21 13:50       ` cinap_lenrek
2014-04-22  1:46         ` kokamoto
2014-04-22 11:37           ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-04-24  1:28             ` kokamoto
2014-04-24  9:14               ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2014-05-05  5:34           ` kokamoto
2014-05-05  6:06             ` Skip Tavakkolian

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