What is the kernel doing?

[Boyd Roberts]

In article <1990Nov14.092733.456 at fiver> palowoda at fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
> I'm curious, I was running umon386 and watching my system when there was
>no activity. I notice that a rawch read causes a process switch. And in turn
>it appears that the pwitch causes a iget, namei and dirblk. I assume the  
>latter are disk access. Why does it do this?
>

I think you've got it around the wrong way.  iget, namei and dirblk [sic]
will cause process switches.


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