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From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
To: Duane Whitty <duane@dwlabs.ca>
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On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 19:34 -0300, Duane Whitty wrote:
> I've been spending a lot of time recently reading how SMP works, kernel
> threads, SA/KSE, callouts, the differences between SCHED_4BSD and SCHED_ULE,
> locking, caches, etc.  I've still got a lot to learn and a lot to actually
> start trying to apply in code.
> 
> I've often thought this might be easier if some of the great material
> available in the man pages was perhaps streamlined into the evolving
> FreeBSD Architecture Handbook.

Yes, please.  The architecture handbook really needs a face-lift.  :-)

-- 
Joel