Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:50:59 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: terry@lambert.org, Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCHES: NFS server locking support Message-ID: <199705132250.SAA00500@jenolan.caipgeneral> In-Reply-To: <199705131700.KAA10167@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Tue, 13 May 1997 10:00:42 -0700 (MST))
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:00:42 -0700 (MST) > Why not put lockd into the kernel as a kernel thread and avoid all of > this overhead? That's what we do and it works extremely well... Because FreeBSD does not have kernel threading, a FreeBSD kernel thread is nothing more than a process that enters/starts-in kernel space, and never leaves? BTW: "We"? Who has an NFS lockd? Linux.
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