Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:55:36 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: kthread API Message-ID: <XFMail.001214135536.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Hey all, I'd like to make some of the kernel API's a little more consistent as far as in their naming. The first one I'd like to tackle is the kthread API. Specifically, I'd like to stick the whole API under a kthread_* API. This would result in the following: Old Name New Name -------- -------- kproc_start kproc_start shutdown_kproc kproc_shutdown kthread_create kthread_create kthread_exit kthread_exit resume_kproc kthread_resume suspend_kproc kthread_suspend kproc_suspend_loop kthread_suspend_check The description of all of these can be found in kthread(9). I kept the kproc_ prefix for start and shutdown because those functions are wrappers used specifically with the kernel daemons (pagedaemon, vmdaemon, etc.) whereas the other functions may operate on any kernel thread. I'm not opposed to sticking those under kthread_* if that is what everyone else wants however. After kthread_*, I plan to probably stick the software interrupt API under a swi_* namespace. If I get this committed, I'll fix update the manpage as well. The patch can be found at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/kthread.patch. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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