Critical Sections for userland.
Alfred Perlstein
alfred at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 4 02:48:21 PDT 2007
* Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des at des.no> [071004 02:05] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <alfred at freebsd.org> writes:
> > Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here.
> >
> > This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding
> > a user level spinlock.
>
> Yeah, great idea, cooperative multitasking is the new black!
Do you have:
a) Evidence or a paper to prove that this is a bad idea?
b) A helpful suggestion?
c) An obvious understanding of the problem?
If not then perhaps one ought to restrict snarky comments
to private mail where they will be at least somewhat appreciated.
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- Alfred Perlstein
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