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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:44:28 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc -kthread
Message-ID:  <20030120084428.GA92282@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030120082641.GA31370@leafy.idv.tw>
References:  <000b01c2bfc0$8ed86e90$e602a8c0@shara.net> <20030119144233.GA1056@graf.pompo.net> <007901c2bfd0$3ee5de30$e602a8c0@shara.net> <20030119230901.GA89120@rot13.obsecurity.org> <002601c2c029$a0063a30$e602a8c0@shara.net> <20030120082339.GC92001@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030120082641.GA31370@leafy.idv.tw>

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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:26:41PM +0800, leafy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:23:39AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > (just curious: has it ever worked, and why was it removed?)
> >=20
> > No.  An improved (relative to other OSes) kernel threading system is
> > being developed in the 5.0 branch ("KSE").
> >=20
> > Kris
>
> Since you brought this up(*grin*), how different is KSE to NetBSD's
> new thread activation scheme? The FreeBSD KSE page does not say much
> about the implementation details.

I believe the NetBSD scheme is a faithful implementation of the
original Scheduler Activation paper.  KSE is a bit different, though
broadly similar (based on SA)..there is a design paper floating around
somewhere, which is a bit out of date.

Kris

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