From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 31 19:16:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9A614E8B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA01861 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:16:22 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA69850 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 04:16:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4E514E8B for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:16:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id WAA16785; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:15:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 22:15:01 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <199911010315.WAA16785@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: eischen@vigrid.com, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote: [...] > > 10.) Quick access to curthread and thread specific data. We shouldn't > > have to enter the kernel to get this. This should also be true > > for threads spread across multiple [lightweight] processes. > > > fair enough.. (though very much a 'request' than a major design goal) Well, you could argue that a design that forced a system call whenever the current thread or TSD was needed was a bad design. I would imagine every pthread function needs to get at the current thread, so that would force at least one system call for each pthread call. > > 12.) A libpthread that can be linked with libc. > > At this stage, an implementation detail, can I leave this till a later > stage? OK Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message