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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:58:53 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KSE threading support (first parts)
Message-ID:  <15081.53117.150505.145701@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010427154434.12501B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
References:  <15081.50170.297579.938254@nomad.yogotech.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010427154434.12501B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> > >     Well, that's complete bullshit.  KSE's are extremely short-running
> > >     affairs in kernel mode, especially when you consider the most likely
> > >     asynchronizing case (a simple blocking situation that will most commonly
> > >     be in a read() or write()).
> > 
> > Not necessarily.  My experience with developing and running applications
> > on Solaris says that having multiple KSE's/process is a *huge* win.
> 
> You do know that the proposed implementation isn't quite like
> Solaris (KSEs don't get their own quantum).  You better holler
> if you want it ;-)

I'm not sure how much a difference that makes, but to be honest, I
haven't thought about the consequences of it much. :(


Nate

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