From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Sep 22 18:47:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF1737B401 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BFF43E97 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17tIJt-0000t5-00; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:47:29 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:47:29 -0700 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Daniel Eischen , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Linux threading model Message-ID: <20020923014729.GA3362@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <3D8B62DB.C27B7E07@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D8B62DB.C27B7E07@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Bill Huey (Hui) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:03:07AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > By going to 1:1, they dodge this issue; but in so doing, they > increase threads overhead to that of processes: threads become > a mechanism for sharing some resources: the moral equivalent of > the old rfork()/sfork() system calls for heap and descriptor > space sharing, with seperate stacks. Conceptually this is definitely the case, but this says otherwise for the particular operations they outline in this email: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.2/1581.html Not sure what to think about this... bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message