From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 16:07:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA16467 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail13.digital.com (mail13.digital.com [192.208.46.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16462 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:07:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from muggsy.lkg.dec.com by mail13.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.2/1.0/WV) id TAA02397; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:01:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from whydos.lkg.dec.com by muggsy.lkg.dec.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) with SMTP id AA02354; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:01:20 -0400 Received: from localhost.lkg.dec.com (localhost.lkg.dec.com [127.0.0.1]) by whydos.lkg.dec.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA04291; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:07:09 GMT Message-Id: <199607081907.TAA04291@whydos.lkg.dec.com> X-Authentication-Warning: whydos.lkg.dec.com: Host localhost.lkg.dec.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 Cc: tech-kern@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some interesting papers on BSD ... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jul 1996 16:00:52 -0400." <9607052000.AA11110@netrix.lkg.dec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 19:07:09 +0000 From: Matt Thomas Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here I go again... Another paper ... http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~chris/papers/cli.ps Draft of paper discussing different hardware synchronization schemes on the x86. It discusses how to avoid talking to the PIC/8259 which scheduling critical sections. While it probably won't save much on lightly loaded systems, I have to wonder how it would effect heavily loaded systems such wcarchive.cdrom.com... -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message