From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 31 15:57:23 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 5722D1525F for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 15:57:15 -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 AAA22883 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 00:57:10 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id AAA68162 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 00:57:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04BB151B2 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 15:54:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id SAA25110; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:53:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:53:30 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen Message-Id: <199910312353.SAA25110@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: julian@whistle.com, nate@mt.sri.com Subject: Re: Threads models and FreeBSD. Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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