From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 31 14:42:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D016B14DC8 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA22129 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:42:28 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA67745 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 23:42:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EEF14BFD for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from home.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [207.76.204.203]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA25837 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:38:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:38:52 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@home.elischer.org To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok, but can he do it after we have decided what we are trying to achieve? On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > So what are the definitions that a thread enabled environment should > > possess? This not a definative list, and before we go on to solve the > > worlds threading problems, I'd like everyone to add their thoughts to this > > list so that we can agree about what problems we are trying to solve. > > I'd appreciate it if Terry (or someone else) could clarify exactly the > differences between the "scheduler activations" model described in the > paper Daniel Eischen recently pointed out (which I thought was very well > written): > > http://www.freebsd.org/~deischen/p95-anderson.pdf > > and the model he seems to prefer (async call gates). I've been rereading > some of the old discussions about this, and they seem fairly similar. > > I'm not likely to be able to bring much to the discussion, but I'd > appreciate the extra hint so I can understand it better :-) > > Kris > > ---- > "Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike - you just go in every > day and do it real half-assed. It's the American Way." > -- Homer Simpson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message