Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 12:31:29 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: giffunip@asme.org Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scheduler Activations on Linux Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311091224010.12070-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031108165012.19170.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > I was navigating and I found that some Linux guys discovered that they want > (but haven't yet implemented) Scheduler Activations: > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/glibcthreads.html This was their original design intent, but the changes to the Linux kernel necessary to support this were not deemed acceptable. There's more info on their current implementation at: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf nptl is a 1:1 implementation with most of the work performed by the kernel. > It's nice to see that thanks to heroic efforts of the KSE guys we are so far > ahead! > > It might be interesting to run the posix test suite with our current threads: > > http://posixtest.sourceforge.net/ Someone make a port! -- Dan Eischen
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