From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 10:14:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B490A37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486EF43F75 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:14:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([12.233.125.100]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20030711171414015007bopde>; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:14:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA49968; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:14:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Andrew Gallatin In-Reply-To: <16142.50418.692392.183187@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dumb KSE question X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:14:16 -0000 On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > We have a driver which will block a thread in a cv_timewait_sig() > after it calls into driver via an ioctl. Under libc_r, this will > naturally block the entire process until the driver wakes it up via a > cv_signal(). > > I assume that with KSE, the UTS will schedule another thread to run as > a result of calling the cv_timewait_sig()? Ie, it won't block the > entire process? yes, both libthr and libkse will allow your process to continue, sans thread. > > Thanks, > > Drew > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-threads@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-threads > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-threads-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >