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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:36:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Threads models and FreeBSD.
Message-ID:  <199911011936.OAA18744@hda.hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911010221.TAA13961@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Oct 31, 99 07:21:20 pm"

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> > but that's wrong.. the memory is shared..
> > only the %sp register is differnet..
> 
> Right, my bad.
> 
> Here's what I wrote to Sean.
> 
> Thread share everything that a normal process, including a
> thread-specific stack which is used to keep each thread's context
> seperate from one another.

I haven't caught up with you guys yet.  This is what
I asked about POSIX threading before: can stack be private per
thread?  There are obvious cacheing advantages, especially with
threads across multiple processors.  I'll have to buy the spec.

Peter

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Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)   Realtime development, Machine control,
HD Associates, Inc.               Safety critical systems, Agency approval




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