From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 12 2:27:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D22237B400; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.199.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09EAC43E5E; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: from rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (8.12.5/3.7W-rina.r-Nankai-Koya) with ESMTP id g6C9RFUl052728 ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:27:16 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200207120927.g6C9RFUl052728@rina.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:27:14 +0900 From: Seigo Tanimura To: Terry Lambert Cc: John Baldwin , Seigo Tanimura , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: multiple threads for interrupts In-Reply-To: <3D1CC378.5377CDB9@mindspring.com> References: <3D1CC378.5377CDB9@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.8.1 (Something) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 14) (Cuyahoga Valley) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Digital Library Research Division, Information Techinology Centre, The University of Tokyo MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:13:44 -0700, Terry Lambert said: >> FWIW, Solaris doesn't use multiple >> threads for a shared interrupt, instead, when an ithread is awakened, it >> is bound to the CPU receiving the interrupt until it finishes. If you >> don't have a copy of Solaris Internals I would recommend getting a >> copy. :) tlambert2> It's a good book, event hough Solaris 9 changes again. I'll tlambert2> also note that they have "invented" the buffer cache seperate tlambert2> from the VM (again), to get around the lack of working set tlambert2> quotas, so some things in that book need to be taken with a tlambert2> grain of salt... I ordered one two days ago, it should be a great help to understand the source of Solaris 8 I have. -- Seigo Tanimura To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message