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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:45:06 -0700
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues
Message-ID:  <4714F8A2.5050406@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071016094118.GE5411@hoeg.nl>
References:  <20071016094118.GE5411@hoeg.nl>

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Ed Schouten wrote:
> For some reason, I want to understand how the queueing of blocked
> threads in the kernel works when waiting for a lock, which is if I
> understand correctly done by the turnstiles and sleepqueues. I'm the
> proud owner of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
> System book, but for some reason, I can't find anything about it in the
> book.
>
> Is there a way to obtain information about how they work? I already read
> the source somewhat, but that shouldn't be an ideal solution, in my
> opinion.

You might take a look at _Solaris Internals_ by Mauro and McDougall.

Jason



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