From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Dec 1 8:16:51 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 82CAC14D79 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:16:48 -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 RAA28233 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:16:32 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA77470 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:16:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E24E14D79 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 08:16:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rcarter@pinyon.org) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA08517; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:15:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip-83-032.prc.primenet.com(207.218.83.32), claiming to be "pinyon.org" via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAAEaWdp; Wed Dec 1 09:15:07 1999 Received: from chomsky.Pinyon.ORG (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pinyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8239484; Wed, 1 Dec 1999 09:13:51 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Jason Evans Cc: Julian Elischer , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, rcarter@pinyon.org Subject: Re: Revisitted.. Threads goals.? In-Reply-To: Message from Jason Evans of "Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:31:04 PST." <19991130173104.K301@sturm.canonware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 09:13:51 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-Id: <19991201161351.8239484@pinyon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG %On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:45:28PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: %> %> I think this is a good time for us to re-examine some of the things that %> we decided were goals. %> %> I have somme comments I'd like to make AT THE END, but after the general %> neuron frying of the last week or so it might be a good idea to look at %> these again and see if any of them have changed in light of the %> discussion. I have difficulty in seeing this list as exhaustive or %> correct. We need someone who is very into threads to contribute. %> Jason? What do yuo see as YOUR goals? % %One goal that I did not list last week, but one that is important (first %brought up by Peter, I think), is to make the LinuxThreads work done by %Richard natively useable (i.e. not under Linux emulation). This is %admittedly an interim solution, but it should be relatively easy to make %work, and will be genuinely useful in a number of places. It already works native now. I'm going to submit a libgcc_r addition to the port today. I build and run every ACE+TAO beta against it, as well as with libc_r threads. There are a couple of bugs left, but I've got to run the regression tests again today to get those characterized accurately, and that takes a while. At one point I had a pretty thorough performance test harness constructed using ACE for comparing libc_r and linuxthreads, it might be of use for the discussion of user vs. kernel context switching. Russell %Jason % % % % %To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org %with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message % To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message