Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:57:35 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: lists@tar.com Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux Threads patches available Message-ID: <199812152357.PAA11828@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199812152318.RAA06787@ns.tar.com> from "Richard Seaman, Jr." at "Dec 15, 98 05:18:03 pm"
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Richard Seaman, Jr. writes: > Earlier I offered > to try to implement a "one-to-one" kernel threads library by extending > the current pthreads code, but almost all the comments I received were > that people wanted something other than one-to-one kernel threads. > This was beyond my capabilities and interest. Forgive me if I don't completely understand, but... It seems that if the one-to-one implementation were layered the right way, it would be easy to add a 'shim' layer (later on) that converts it into a many-to-many version of the same thing. In other words, can't you localize the operation 'give me a new context' to a single place in the code, which to start with always creates a kernel thread, but later can do some more intelligent thread management? Then we can start with 1:1 threads, and improve them later. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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