Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:31:47 -0800 From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> To: Seth Leigh <seth@pengar.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: possible problem with SMP? Message-ID: <20010215013147.N56728@canonware.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010215025043.027a3008@hobbiton.shire.net>; from seth@pengar.com on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:56:07AM -0500 References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010214234050.026959f8@hobbiton.shire.net> <200102150708.AAA19435@usr08.primenet.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010215025043.027a3008@hobbiton.shire.net>
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:56:07AM -0500, Seth Leigh wrote: > Terry, have you looked into the Solaris Doors mechanism, and do you think > that implementing a facility like that in FreeBSD would clean up and > improve the way FreeBSD plans to implement the threads library upcalls, and > other possible places for upcalls as well? Despite my as-yet limited > understanding, it sounds promising to me. I have looked at the Solaris doors mechanism, and am of the opinion that it is significantly more heavy-weight than what we need for KSEs. Implementing doors is a large task by itself. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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