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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!torn!hone!informer1.cis.McMaster.CA!church.dcss!church.dcss!not-for-mail From: dsantry@church.dcss.McMaster.CA (Douglas Santry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Threads for 2.1R, alpha testers wanted Date: 6 Jun 1996 10:27:49 -0400 Organization: Computer Science & Systems, McMaster University Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4p6pt5$g19@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> References: <4p44b0$ovl@church.dcss.McMaster.CA> <4p4rcm$oe9@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: church.dcss.mcmaster.ca In article <4p4rcm$oe9@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >Understood. There are actually a couple of people working on threads, >I seem to remember, but I don't have any details here at the moment. >Perhaps it would be a good idea to drop a note to hackers@freebsd.org, >just to make sure you don't end up duplicating each other's work? Well, I did talk to some folks before I started, and there seems to be two camps, one wants asynch system calls and all threading done in user space, the other wants kernel scheduable threads(what I have) for the SMP effort. From what I saw, erverybody was still hashing out ideas, so I thought I'd try a prototype and run it up the flag pole. One potential problem is I based my work on 2.1R while current development is at 2.2 so that also was a problem. This is a prototype and, if FreeBSD wants it, I'll merge it with 2.2 after I get feedback from people about what they want from this stuff. My goal is to get this into the standard dist. so any core members are welcome to make suggestions(as is everybody!) except Lambert, I already know what you think of my model! :-) DJS