Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-19 Thread Attilio Rao
2007/10/19, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 19 October 2007 12:56:54 am Ed Schouten wrote: > > * John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The best option right now is to read the code. There are some comments in > > > both the headers and implementation. > > > > Would it be usef

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-19 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 19 October 2007 01:08:27 pm Attilio Rao wrote: > 2007/10/19, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Friday 19 October 2007 12:56:54 am Ed Schouten wrote: > > > * John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The best option right now is to read the code. There are some comments in >

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Ed Schouten wrote: * John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The best option right now is to read the code. There are some comments in both the headers and implementation. Would it be useful to write manpages for these interfaces, or do we assume that only godlike people can use them anyway?

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Ed Schouten wrote: * John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The best option right now is to read the code. There are some comments in both the headers and implementation. Would it be useful to write manpages for these interfaces, or do we assume that only godlike people can use them anyway?

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-19 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 19 October 2007 12:56:54 am Ed Schouten wrote: > * John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The best option right now is to read the code. There are some comments in > > both the headers and implementation. > > Would it be useful to write manpages for these interfaces, or do we > ass

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-18 Thread Ed Schouten
* John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best option right now is to read the code. There are some comments in > both the headers and implementation. Would it be useful to write manpages for these interfaces, or do we assume that only godlike people can use them anyway? I am willing to wri

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-17 Thread John Baldwin
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,

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Jason Evans wrote: Ed Schouten wrote: 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 Free

Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007-10-16 Thread Jason Evans
Ed Schouten wrote: 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