From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 6 6:11:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4502137B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:11:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ada.snu.ac.kr (ada.snu.ac.kr [147.46.106.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F57543E4A for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:11:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from redjade@ada.snu.ac.kr) Received: from ada.snu.ac.kr (ada.snu.ac.kr [147.46.106.49]) by ada.snu.ac.kr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB6EBaSt016526 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:11:36 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from redjade@ada.snu.ac.kr) Received: (from redjade@localhost) by ada.snu.ac.kr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB6EBa0Y016525 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:11:36 +0900 (KST) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:11:36 +0900 From: Kyunghwan Kim To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Kernel process(thread) in SMP system Message-ID: <20021206141136.GA16433@ada.snu.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-My-Present-Organization: Innuworks, Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've heard that kernel of RELENG_4 branch is single-threaded, but can hardly check out if kernel process(thread) like pagedaemon can run on other cpu concurrently when another cpu is processing an network interrupt. Using Kernel process(thread) for cpu-bound job in SMP environment will be beneficial? It there any method to tell which process including user and kernel process is in kernel mode? -- Kyunghwan Kim redjade@ada.snu.ac.kr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message