Re: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

2007/10/19, John Baldwin <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Friday 19 October 2007 12:56:54 am Ed Schouten wrote:
* John Baldwin <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Well, really turnstiles don't have manpages, but this is still OK as
they are only used in mutex while the "real" sleeping primitive should
be identified by sleepqueues.

Attilio


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