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Date:      Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:31:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com
Subject:   Re: Threads goals  version II
Message-ID:  <199911010331.WAA18647@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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> 6/ (contentious) multiple theads should be bound to within the resource
>         limits of the single process.

Multiple processes/LWPs should be allowed to have their own quantum and
not count towards the [parent] process quantum, right?

> 9/ there exists a set of primatives that allow threads to influence the
> in-process scheduling between themselves.

This should also be across multiple LWPs also.  Perhaps we need to
state our terminology - I'm not sure if this is what you meant.

> 14/ your goals here..

The ability for the threads library to protect internal data structures
to be safe from priority inversion problems when using multiple LWPs.

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com




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