Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:04:33 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, dyson@iquest.net, dick@tar.com, jplevyak@inktomi.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: lockf and kernel threads Message-ID: <199903052004.MAA52547@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199903051959.LAA82525@rah.star-gate.com>
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:> Little things like, ohhhhh disabling interrupts. Accessing the MMU
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:And I supposed that we can not provide a mechanism or layer to deliver
:AST which does not require disabling interrupts, etc...
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: Amancio
Not unless you want to rewrite the kernel. But it's actually more the
inability to access the MMU, cache control, and other priv instructions
that pretty much trashes the usefullness of ring 1 & 2.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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