From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 9 10:20:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D730C37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C592B43E65 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:20:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021009172030.CQJJ20316.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:20:30 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA46397; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:03:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Igor Sysoev Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scheduler framework. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Igor Sysoev wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > If a thread mailbox IS provided: > > the syscall is entered. > > the thread blocks. A second thread is invoked and attached > > to the KSE, which is disconnected from the original thread. > > Sorry, where did this second thread come from ? there is a thread_allocator that allocates threads on demand. Actually the process ahs a couple of spare threads "Up its sleave" so it doesn't have to go to teh thread allocator every time.. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message