From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 11 14:49:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5B837B400 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0202.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.202] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16PAUB-0001UD-00; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:49:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3C3F6BEC.727D4C6@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:49:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Bakul Shah , Dan Eischen , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc References: <3C37E559.B011DF29@vigrid.com> <200201112141.QAA25529@devonshire.cnchost.com> <15423.27120.926839.725176@caddis.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > That *IS* the crux of the entire discussion. Everything else is agreed > upon. > > No-one is arguing the point of what *should* be done, but whether or not > it *can* be done. If it *can* be done (the jury is still out), then > *how* is it done. Once we get past that point, we can attempt to > optimize the path so that context switches can be 'lean' or 'fat' as > necessary (w/regards to the FPU state). Yes yes yes, what Nate said. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message