Subject: Re: SMP-related process state changes
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/24/2000 23:23:25
>No kmem-grovelers should be broken by this; I didn't change the size
>or layout of struct proc in any way, merely added a new state.  Obviously
>old programs will not know about this state, but currently, only one
>process at any given time will be in this state, so it's not too
>horrible.

wouldn't that be one per cpu (eventually)?  and only the process
that's actually doing the looking will find itself in that state,
right?  or might it context switch to a run queue while the data's
being copied to its userspace from kmem?

>I'm going to commit these just before I commit the scheduler variable
>rearragement, and then bump the NetBSD version after the variable
>rearrangement.

1.4Z?!

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