On Tuesday 16 October 2007 05:41:18 am Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello, > > I asked the following question on questions@, but as requested, I'll > forward this question to this list, because of its technical nature. > > ----- Forwarded message from Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:13:01 +0200 > > From: Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues > > > > Hello, > > > > For some reason, I want to understand how the queueing of blocked > > threads in the kernel works when waiting for a lock, which is if I > > understand correctly done by the turnstiles and sleepqueues. I'm the > > proud owner of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating > > System book, but for some reason, I can't find anything about it in the > > book. > > > > Is there a way to obtain information about how they work? I already read > > the source somewhat, but that shouldn't be an ideal solution, in my > > opinion.
The best option right now is to read the code. There are some comments in both the headers and implementation. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
