Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:34:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Christopher Stein <stein@eecs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: seeking information on kernel threads Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000829133053.102B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0008291240500.18775-100000@wally>
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There person you want to e-mail is Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org> who is responsible for a lot of the current paging/swapping code, and revamped the VM system. Feel free to forward the response to -arch so there are a lot of us out there less familiar with the VM system who would not mind becoming more familiar with it :-). You'll also find that there are other kernel threads that pop into existence for specific tasks -- the most common is the AIO implementation, which will create a pool of worker threads to handle specific in-process requests. In the upcoming SMPng code commit, I believe interrupts will also be bound to threads in the kernel, so there should be more threads in the near future; presumably this will become a more common implementation practice as kernel synchronization primitives improve. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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