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Date:      Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:50:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KSE threading support (first parts)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010427154434.12501B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <15081.50170.297579.938254@nomad.yogotech.com>

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Nate Williams wrote:
> >     Well, that's complete bullshit.  KSE's are extremely short-running
> >     affairs in kernel mode, especially when you consider the most likely
> >     asynchronizing case (a simple blocking situation that will most commonly
> >     be in a read() or write()).
> 
> Not necessarily.  My experience with developing and running applications
> on Solaris says that having multiple KSE's/process is a *huge* win.

You do know that the proposed implementation isn't quite like
Solaris (KSEs don't get their own quantum).  You better holler
if you want it ;-)

-- 
Dan Eischen

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