Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues

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Hello,

I asked the following question on questions@, but as requested, I'll
forward this question to this list, because of its technical nature.

----- Forwarded message from Ed Schouten <[e-mail]> -----
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:13:01 +0200
> From: Ed Schouten <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Inner workings of turnstiles and sleepqueues
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> Hello,
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> For some reason, I want to understand how the queueing of blocked
> threads in the kernel works when waiting for a lock, which is if I
> understand correctly done by the turnstiles and sleepqueues. I'm the
> proud owner of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
> System book, but for some reason, I can't find anything about it in the
> book.
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> Is there a way to obtain information about how they work? I already read
> the source somewhat, but that shouldn't be an ideal solution, in my
> opinion.
>=20
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Yours,
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 Ed Schouten <[e-mail]>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/

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