a proposed callout API

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200612011009.kB1A9VA8064231 at apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
rites:
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>:     http://www.ece.rice.edu/~willmann/pubs/paranet_tr06-872.pdf
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>:Robert N M Watson
>
>   Oh, that paper.  You know, I talked to Alan about that paper a while
>   back, but it isn't really possible to compare DragonFly side by side
>   with FreeBSD yet in an SMP environment because we still have a lot 
>   of BGL junk in the network path, and because our interrupts are
>   still going to cpu #0.  The code itself is mostly MP safe, and Jeff
>   has actually turned off the BGL in some of his own testing, but I
>   can't do it officially yet.  In anycase, that is why DragonFly wasn't
>   used.

So,  like, why don't you work on that, instead of annoying us with your
long lectures about how "The World Shall Be Ordered According To Me" ?

Poul-Henning

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