Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:48:26 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: threads and the scheduler(s). Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301282100290.20117-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20030128201901.A1673@citusc.usc.edu>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:11:27PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > At the beginning of this we spec'd out a design and several things > > were said. > > > > 1/ the names of these entities might change as we discover the > > implementation details, > > > > and > > > > 2/ Sme of thes structures (thread, KSE, KSEGRP, proc) might become > > more or less 'virtual' when we try implement them. > > > > Well that time has happenned. > > I'm kind of concerned that KSE has turned into something much more > complicated than it should ever have been (and already was at the > beginning). I understand scheduler activations, but as far as I can > tell we're no longer even close to the original KSE design because of > various incremental changes in direction, and there's no coherent > documentation for the current state of affairs (or explanations for > the various design decisions in departure from the original design). > > I guess I don't actually have anything constructive to say, but I > really hope this whole KSE thing isn't going to turn out to be an > over-designed way of not-really-solving non-problems. > Hmm well it's an interesting point of view, but the implementation is actually very close to what was proposed 2 years ago. If you think it's complicated you are misundertanding something.. it's amazingly simple, it's just alot of owrk getting there from a non-threading start. > Kris > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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