Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:53:30 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: julian@whistle.com, nate@mt.sri.com Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199910312353.SAA25110@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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> > It is notable that we already support Linux kernel threads on FreeBSD > > better than we support a native threads model. This is because we support > > the 'clone' system call through our rfork() code, and that is their basis > > for threading. As is common for this group of people, we have not adopted > > the Linux approach because it is considered to be 'too simplistic', > > assigning a separate kernel schedulable process to run each thread. > > While I agree this 'simplistic' approach isn't as good as a N-M > approach, it's certainly better than what we have now. Is anyone > working on the more complex model *at all*, cause if not I'd like to see > a simple kernel threading model used, cause something is better than > nothing. Yes. Scheduler activations, but I will probably be needing some help in the kernel side of things. Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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