From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 3 9:57:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DF737B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:57:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1056C43E31 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:57:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 8907 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2002 16:57:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 3 Jul 2002 16:57:49 -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 g63GvmM26539; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 12:57:48 -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: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 12:57:50 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: KSE signal problems still Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Jul-2002 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> The argument could be made that you shouldn't be checking in stuff >> until you know how it works, etc., or that you could commit in smaller >> pieces (say, get multiple threads per process for kernel processes >> working in the scheduler and just ignoring userland-only things like >> signals until you have the other working). > > You can't do those separatly unfortulatly.. Sure you could, just have kernel-only KSE processes at first and use some special kernel processes for testing. They would never return to userland but would be adequate to test that all the various run and sleep queues, etc. worked fine. > anyhow, it's not that I don't understand it, it's just that > it's complicated.. That part of my message was overly harsh. I'm sorry. -- 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message