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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 1998 04:22:39 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Locking on disk slice I/O--yes, no or how?
Message-ID:  <19980122042239.37036@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801220119.UAA12943@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 08:19:07PM -0500
References:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.980122095543.5155A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> <199801220119.UAA12943@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 08:19:07PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:

> I am also looking at pushing certain kernel services into kernel
> threads (AIO is already there), but those things are off into the
> future (probably 3.1+ timeframe.)

I've tried the archives and my memory and not found any answer: Does
this mean we have a usable API for internal kernel threads?

Does this involve full use of nice-levels, so I can create a thread
that does data-structure optimization and not having it block more
critical operations?

(Context: I'm looking at some advanced firewall optimizations that
will take a lot of CPU to compute, and that it would be nice to use
otherwise idle time for.)

Eivind.



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