Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 19 06:51:05 PDT 2007


On Friday 19 October 2007 12:56:54 am Ed Schouten wrote:
> * John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> 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
> write manpages for them.

They already exist, but they really are only used to implement higher-level
primitives like locks and condition variables.  The rest of the kernel should
use the higher-level primitives anyway.

-- 
John Baldwin


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