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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-11-24 09:24:02 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-11-24 09:24:02 +0100
commit26d86a6a7e67e81ae5d02bfdb0d4363f2e741baa (patch)
treed212ea086471b89973f0da0458a73b99c2eb5d79
parent7868681998128e95cc797fc3cca934714fa948a0 (diff)
Link some things.
-rw-r--r--hurd/libports.mdwn9
-rw-r--r--open_issues/multithreading.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--shortcuts.mdwn7
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/libports.mdwn b/hurd/libports.mdwn
index 0ec0596c..6f2cd46d 100644
--- a/hurd/libports.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/libports.mdwn
@@ -27,4 +27,11 @@ another component.
When a message is recieved, the thread acting as receiver checks if any other
thread is also waiting for requests. If there is none, a new thread is
spawned. Thus, the current thread continues processing the message while the
-newly created thread starts listening for new ones.
+newly created thread starts listening for new ones. ([[!taglink
+open_issue_hurd]]: [[open_issues/multithreading]].)
+
+Also, there are configurable timeouts for [[translator]]s who want to go away
+when they are not used. ([[!taglink open_issue_hurd]]: there used to be bugs
+in this area, [[!message-id "87hev152we.fsf@becket.becket.net"]], but it may be
+fixed as of [[!message-id "20111030210045.GA4983@myhost"]],
+[[!GNU_Savannah_Git_hurd_hurd 9b5429e834cde56f73b8ff605e36afc7d9bb6e1b]].)
diff --git a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn
index 1fc2c318..0f6b9f19 100644
--- a/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/multithreading.mdwn
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Hurd servers / VFS libraries are multithreaded.
# Design
-Roughly using one thread per
+See [[hurd/libports]]: roughly using one thread per
incoming request. This is not the best approach: it doesn't really make sense
to scale the number of worker threads with the number of incoming requests, but
instead they should be scaled according to the backends' characteristics.
diff --git a/shortcuts.mdwn b/shortcuts.mdwn
index b62b2981..fd4d4dee 100644
--- a/shortcuts.mdwn
+++ b/shortcuts.mdwn
@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ ikiwiki will include your shortcut in the standard underlay.
* [[!shortcut name=FF_project url="http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p%s" desc="FOSS Factory bounty (p%s)"]]
+## Savannah
+
+ * [[!shortcut name=GNU_Savannah_Git_hurd_hurd
+ url="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/commit/?id=%s"
+ desc="hurd/hurd.git commit %s"]]
+
+
## Notmuch'n'Gmane.
* [[!shortcut name=message-id url="http://thread.gmane.org/%s" desc="""`id:"%s"`"""]]