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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 18:50:59 -0400
From:      "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
To:        terry@lambert.org
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, Andrew.Gordon@net-tel.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PATCHES: NFS server locking support
Message-ID:  <199705132250.SAA00500@jenolan.caipgeneral>
In-Reply-To: <199705131700.KAA10167@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Tue, 13 May 1997 10:00:42 -0700 (MST))

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   From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
   Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:00:42 -0700 (MST)

   > Why not put lockd into the kernel as a kernel thread and avoid all of
   > this overhead?  That's what we do and it works extremely well...

   Because FreeBSD does not have kernel threading, a FreeBSD kernel
   thread is nothing more than a process that enters/starts-in kernel
   space, and never leaves?

   BTW: "We"?  Who has an NFS lockd?

Linux.



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