a proposed callout API

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Dec 1 11:03:05 PST 2006


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200612011009.kB1A9VA8064231 at apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
> rites:
>> :
>> :     http://www.ece.rice.edu/~willmann/pubs/paranet_tr06-872.pdf
>> :
>> :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" ?
Matt,
Ignore Poul-Henning's email on this.. He certainly speaks for
himself but his use of  "Us" or "We" doesn't incluse everyone....
  some of us ARE interested to hear intelligent comments.


Julian

> 
> Poul-Henning
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