From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 08:35:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528A41065670 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 08:35:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jt@0xabadba.be) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73BC8FC19 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 08:35:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jt@0xabadba.be) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so4494649ewy.43 for ; Tue, 05 May 2009 01:35:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.8.78 with SMTP id 56mr2219024weq.210.1241510882125; Tue, 05 May 2009 01:08:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [149.106.224.20] From: jt@0xabadba.be Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 04:07:47 -0400 Message-ID: To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: concurrent sysctl implementation X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 08:35:41 -0000 Hackers, I've been using FreeBSD since a boy and now its time for me to give back. I will be doing my final projects in university concerning concurrency in the FreeBSD Kernel. I've been discussing with Ed@ methods of implementing sysctl concurrently since we use sysctl quite a lot for _everything_ essentially (make, general kernel information, etc). I've been reading the sysctl man pages and some of the code in the kernel; however, I wanted to shoot this out to the public since many of you know better than I do about where I should be looking to do the required reading to get the job done correctly. I'm also open to implementing other things once this is done. I hope everyone is doing well. respectfully, =jt