Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:56:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Amit Shah <amitshah@techie.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threaded device drivers Message-ID: <200108181956.f7IJuJS00930@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:48:26 %2B0200." <20010818214826.B8481@caldera.de>
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> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:38:09AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > No, that's not what I wanted to do. I wanted full process context that allo
> ws
> > me to do tsleeps, etc., although it could probably done via a taskq mechani
> sm
> > if I went to the effort to rewrite it as a set of taskqueue calls while in
> > 'rebuild' state.
>
> You might want to take a look at Linux's schedule_task family of cuntions
> (kernel/context.c) - it should be straight forward to implement for FreeBSD.
But entirely unnecessary, since we can already create threads in the
kernel, as I pointed out earlier. See the kthread* family of functions.
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