Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:36:51 +0800 From: "David Xu" <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libpthread patch Message-ID: <001501c30481$d1d7a9d0$f001a8c0@davidw2k> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10304161938070.18792-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: "David Xu" <davidxu@viatech.com.cn> Cc: <freebsd-threads@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 7:46 AM Subject: Re: libpthread patch > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, David Xu wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> > > To: "David Xu" <davidxu@freebsd.org> > > Cc: <freebsd-threads@freebsd.org> > > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 5:05 AM > > Subject: Re: libpthread patch > > > > > > > There's a new patch available at: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/kse/libpthread.diffs > > > > > > This passes all the ACE tests that libc_r passes, with the > > > exception of Cached_Conn_Test. > > > > > > It also seems to work with KDE, konqueror, kwrite, kmail, etc. > > > I don't have mozilla built (and am dreading trying to), but > > > it would be interesting to see if it works with that. > > > > > > > Cool! > > > > > If no-one has any objections, I'd like to commit this > > > soon. I'll let David review and comment to it first. > > > > > > David, I didn't add critical regions to _thr_alloc() and > > > _thr_free(). I think that whenever they are used, we > > > are already in a critical region or operating on an upcall. > > > > > > > Hmm, I don't like to put malloc calling under critical section, > > it is better to put it under a lock, otherwise this would cause dead > > lock. suppose that an user thread is calling malloc(), and heap manager > > got malloc spinlock, then it does somethings and the thread is preempted > > by upcall from kernel, now UTS switches to another thread, that thread > > starts to call pthread_create, so UTS kernel enters a critical region first, > > and calls malloc, this would cause dead lock, because UTS is under critical > > region and no context switch could happen. > > Hmm, I see what you mean. We could put spinlock in critical region > and that may solve the problem, but I eventually want to see spinlocks > go away and replace the very few that we have in libc with mutexes. > > > Also I don't like thr_free under critical region, I think a GC thread is still > > needed to recycle zombie thread and free extra memory, UTS kernel > > should't be blocked by user thread. Despite this, I think the patch should > > be committed. > > I'll work on adding the GC thread back in. I really wanted to > get rid of it so that the KSE can exit when threadcount == 0, > but now we've got to make allowances for the extra thread > in the main KSEG. > If you don't want to use GC thread, you can free extra zoombie threads in thr_alloc(), everytime when thr_alloc is called, if it finds there is too many zoombie threads, free them. > Keep looking at the patch for anything else you might see. > We still need a way to deliver signals and look for async > cancel points in CPU-bound threads. The attempt to add a > signal frame with signalcontext() doesn't seem to work > which is why it is commented out. > I will look. > -- > Dan Eischenhelp
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