From owner-p4-projects Fri May 3 10:30:20 2002 Delivered-To: p4-projects@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id D7E2937B41D; Fri, 3 May 2002 10:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: perforce@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD7437B41C for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 10:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29367 invoked from network); 3 May 2002 17:30:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 3 May 2002 17:30:11 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g43HU9F12362; Fri, 3 May 2002 13:30:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 13:30:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 10740 for review Cc: Jonathan Mini Cc: Jonathan Mini , Perforce Change Reviews Sender: owner-p4-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-May-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: > to some extent I agree with you but realise that all tehuma stuff has > occured since young Edith dorothy was born.. :-) > (i.e the patches predate uma) I realize that, I just think that the goal should be to eliminate the thread free-list in favor of letting uma do its job, but that to avoid any need to malloc in msleep, we instead let each KSE always have a spare "hot" thread for P_KSE processes and that when it uses the hot thread to do an upcall, the first act of the new thread will be to allocate a new hot spare. Does that sound ok? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-projects" in the body of the message