Re: preemptive kernel

2013-03-22 Thread vasanth rao naik sabavat
Hi Adrian, Just to clarify, is the kernel pre-emption involuntary? Let say I have a kernel thread processing a huge list of entries, would this thread get involuntarily context switched out because of kernel preemption? What is the time slice after which a kernel thread can involuntarily context

Re: preemptive kernel

2013-03-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
Yes. Adrian On 22 March 2013 12:09, vasanth rao naik sabavat wrote: > Hi, > > Is the FreeBSD-10 kernel preemptive? > > -- > Thanks, > Vasanth > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hacker

preemptive kernel

2013-03-22 Thread vasanth rao naik sabavat
Hi, Is the FreeBSD-10 kernel preemptive? -- Thanks, Vasanth ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Fwd: Intel microcode update

2013-03-22 Thread Yamagi Burmeister
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:09:22 +0100 Yamagi Burmeister wrote: > Nevertheless attached is a small C program which does the > same. It's not written by me, I just found it somewhere on the web. And it was eaten my the list. You can find it here: http://deponie.yamagi.org/freebsd/misc/microdecode.c -

Re: Fwd: Intel microcode update

2013-03-22 Thread Yamagi Burmeister
Hi, yes the microcode file provided by Intel is incompatible with FreeBSD. You'll need to split it into individual files for each CPU. I vaguely remeber that there was a script or something like that bundled with one of the ports. Nevertheless attached is a small C program which does the same. It's