please yes.. eventually we'll be using it to fire off a thread for every interrupt source if we go the BSDI way. (as dicussed with various people at USENIX)
I was actually thinking about this today... now this is threads within the kernel, and not kernel support for user threads right? julian On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > > I'd like to bring a kernel thread implementation, ported from NetBDS > by the newconfig project, into the kernel. Who would like to review > things before they go into the tree? I can see many benefits for > having this in the tree, but very little downside. This should allow > people to more easily port raid-frame from NetBSD if they desire. > > FYI, this is an outshoot of the porting of the newconfig code to > new-bus. Each bridge controller has its own even thread to handle > cards events in a sane manner. It is basically a stripped down > pccardd in the kernel, but one that has a huge hint database. I'm not > proposing, at this time, to bring it on. I just want to get the > kthread stuff in as a separate issue. > > Comments? > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
