[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Neil Rieck]

This is a repost because the previous link required you to login to
msdn. Sorry about that. (NSR)

This detailed description of Windows Process/Thread dispatcher (old
and new) seem to have many similarities to OpenVMS. The old was was
written by Dave Cutler.

Video: 55 minutes

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Arun-Kishan-Farewell-to-the-Windows-Kernel-Dispatcher-Lock/

p.s. Part way through, Arun mentioned that changes to the dispatcher
were necessary to support scaling windows onto a larger number of
CPUs. The last time I heard someone give a similar (scaling) speech,
it was Gaitan D'Antoni describing changes in OpenVMS-7.3-2 which,
IIRC, was related to erroneous serialization on IOLOCK8. Likewise,
both OSs have enjoyed improvements as engineers have analyzed problems
getting their OSs running in a virtualized environment.

NSR