[coyotos-dev] Sleep for interval

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:31 +0100, Sam Mason wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:54:37AM -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 16:35 +0100, Sam Mason wrote:
> > > I didn't want a preemptive communication mechanism.  Just a way of
> > > arranging for a sleep to happen in parallel with other IPC's.  I'm open
> > > to being told that this is a bad use case.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether it is a bad use case, but we don't support it. If
> > this is what you want, the current system requires that you use a helper
> > thread.
> 
> I still remember it being the proliferation of helper threads that
> motivated the current (partially asynchronous) design.  Or did all that
> go when the scheduler activations went and I missed it?

It all went. The current design is once again wholly synchronous. The
only nod to the old problem is the AppEvent capability, which is
probably good enough to solve those problems.


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