Re: driver concurrency

To: David Holland <dholland-tech%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: driver concurrency
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 17:53:12 +0100

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:02:39PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> How many drivers are there (hardware-level drivers, not things like
> raidframe) where it really matters for more than one lwp to be able to
> be running (not stopped) in the driver at once?
> 
> I'm thinking probably network cards but not much else.

disk controllers which supports lots of concurent transactions could
probably benefit from this too.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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