Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:57:01 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a proposed callout API Message-ID: <1299.1164923821@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:52:22 %2B0100." <ekmr76$23g$1@sea.gmane.org>
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In message <ekmr76$23g$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes: >No trying to take sides here, but for us willing to learn here, what >exactly are the problems in Matt Dillon's suggestions? From a novice's >POV, having per-cpu queues looks (emphasis: looks) very scalable and >performant. I'm not going to dissect Matts emails because that will just lead to a long an pointless flamewar. Most of Matts emails focus on the specifics of implementation whereas I have repeatedly stressed that my focus is on defining a good API for programmers to use which will allow us to isolate the implemetation so we can experiment with different strategies. I will work with John to write up our spec and we will publish that along with the reasoning soon. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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