From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 5 10:06:41 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 5A9811065676 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 10:06:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vasanth.raonaik@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 103C98FC12 for ; Tue, 5 May 2009 10:06:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vasanth.raonaik@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so2734328ywe.13 for ; Tue, 05 May 2009 03:06:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8a9Edu20bBOQd29bSmKnW+5Nul7gYZvd5hrni32kYZU=; b=xir2cThPIsNQ2s4Oer1KvpTcjueRDFTIjly+xZpOyCbrhk300DzVQ6r+gI87e6SepU MIxgJFDbLU7l8a22PfT3dTDEKUgga6h0WEsIsqZcugae0odZ5EOxYZgbeJblcMUdpR+Q OU2yC+u4V5Pd7YKOJgMypQmzXZZLD6MNrAvdw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=H6/vG6Wtt/GaHnQ2LMlzNVyAjKPsbrdrVctPzD74g3ub2S92cn23N5Km3B4FCKmuxn D99dXrYYh0/qZ8xUfg+W9fU/5X3oD50v5OMvQck7lbeWiDVv6rf+ow2aQ8jNVZVz6wpC 2UC6x/Fzg26PfBf/ckl+be1zAVct3MsFj21aA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.206.14 with SMTP id d14mr15357390ang.76.1241516347612; Tue, 05 May 2009 02:39:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:09:07 +0530 Message-ID: From: vasanth raonaik To: jt@0xabadba.be Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 10:06:41 -0000 Hello Jt, I am a newbee in this alias. I am having a very basic question. It would be really good if you could give me some of this information. Could you please elaborate on what is the current architecture of sysctl implementation and How the concurrency would benefit us. Thanks in advance, Vasanth On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:37 PM, wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >