Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 19:55:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Huey <billh@mag.ucsd.edu> To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High syscall overhead? Message-ID: <199906130255.TAA02876@mag.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906130108.UAA05697@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Jun 12, 99 08:08:51 pm
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> I agree. However, I suggest that finegrained locking will be a loosing > proposition. Something in-between is probably good. My brains got fried > on trying to figure out a GOOD solution for the FreeBSD kernel. There > are no GOOD solutions, but a reasonable compromise is some kind of medium > grained scheme. Which is why FreeBSD will go through many of same locking problems in Linux, since they are coming from monolithic kernel origins. Race conditions processor synchronization, per processor cache hit issues, etc... > John bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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