Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 02:34:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pb with COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS Message-ID: <199812211034.CAA11648@newsguy.com>
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At Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:13:24 -0800, you wrote > >> The ifdef'd version is to let people look at it and think about it.. >> possibly as has been suggested, the malloc'd space might only be used if >> there is a sharing of signals. Otherwise it might remain in the U area. > >That's certainly one way of doing it. You could implement structure >compression by COW off the parent's copy of the struct instead, that'd >be even more efficient. I have been wondering about this... Multithreading is usually used to improve performance. Wouldn't this "on-demand" allocation of shared signals impact of performance? -- Daniel C. Sobral dcs@newsguy.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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