From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Aug 29 10:34:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D5537B422 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA00129; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:34:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:34:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Christopher Stein Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: seeking information on kernel threads 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 There person you want to e-mail is Matt Dillon who is responsible for a lot of the current paging/swapping code, and revamped the VM system. Feel free to forward the response to -arch so there are a lot of us out there less familiar with the VM system who would not mind becoming more familiar with it :-). You'll also find that there are other kernel threads that pop into existence for specific tasks -- the most common is the AIO implementation, which will create a pool of worker threads to handle specific in-process requests. In the upcoming SMPng code commit, I believe interrupts will also be bound to threads in the kernel, so there should be more threads in the near future; presumably this will become a more common implementation practice as kernel synchronization primitives improve. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message