Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:47:56 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: archie@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: looking for locking advice.. Message-ID: <XFMail.001221104756.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001221104100.T19572@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On 21-Dec-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I wouldn't worry all too much about the distiction between interrupt
> execution state versus non-interrupt. Sure device nodes want to complete
> as soon as possible, however eventually we'll have _multiple_ software
> interrupt threads running on each processor so latency is reduced.
> ps ax | grep 'swi[0-9]' | wc -l
7
We already have multiple software interrupt threads that can run concurrently.
:)
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