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+ Multiple notify signals at the same time, or queued ones waiting for
ipc_req/fwd to finish would require a notify stack of some kind, which
is maybe too complex for my liking. Not impossible by any means, but I
want to keep things simple.
Let's say a client wants the server to do some async operation. First,
the client calls ipc_req to inform the server that it would like the
operation to be done. The server sets this task in some work queue or
whatever, and returns to the client as quickly as possible. Later on,
when the task is finished, the server does a ipc_req to the client,
with data about what was just finished. The client is responsible for
noting this data down somewhere, either reacting to the operation
directly in the callback, or calling ipc_notify to the thread that
requested the operation. Other possible notifications at the same time
should be handled at the same time, whichever way the client wants to
handle them.
Note that ipc_notify triggers only when the thread it targets is in
its base state, i.e. not doing an ipc_req. This makes things a bit
easier.
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+ Now to actually start implementing shit. :)
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+ In total, a syscall is built up of 6 values, with the first being the
syscall number. Symmetrically, the first value is now a status and the
following five values return "values". This allows us to cram in more
info into the ipc_* functions. The performance difference is
absolutely minimal, at least from my testing in qemu.
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+ Does not mean documentation is done, but it's a nice little
achievement nonetheless.
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+ Next step, start documenting contents of each file.
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+ next up would probably be to start working on process/thread
relationships, largely as documented. Still not entirely sure about
how I want to handle fork, but I suppose I might figure it out at some
point.
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