From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 5 09:14:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12336 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 09:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12313; Tue, 5 May 1998 09:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01913; Tue, 5 May 1998 11:14:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805051614.LAA01913@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD In-Reply-To: from Jason Evans at "May 5, 98 06:41:14 am" To: jasone@canonware.com (Jason Evans) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 11:14:12 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jason Evans said: > On Tue, 5 May 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > > We have had some interesting features in -current, but haven't been > > enabled due to a lack of NEED right now, including zero copy IN/OUT > > of the kernel (only out is implemented right now, but in is an equivalent > > problem to solve, and will probably reserve that for AIO, due to API issues.) > > This is fairly easy to do with our relatively clean VM code, where object > > sharing and the like are natural capabilities. > > John, do you expect that AIO will make it into 3.0? > Yes, no question about that. That and a full SMP-safe kernel threads mechanism will be there. (Sorry for not answering this question fully earlier.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message