Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:45:52 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <15423.31024.859659.324334@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200201112344.SAA20185@ajax.cnchost.com> References: <15423.28063.92751.501022@caddis.yogotech.com> <200201112344.SAA20185@ajax.cnchost.com>
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> > > I have a simulation thread library which allows a thread > > > context switch with 12 or so instructions on a x86. > > > Does it do a full context switch, or a partial context switch? :) > > Good enough! Since this is simulation, all context switches > are cooperative which simplifies things considerably. > > > It's not any more/less relevant now. It's just that it was mostly > > misunderstood in the past, and since we're trying to make get/setcontext > > library calls, we want to make sure to get it right. According to > > Bruce, it may not work as we expected in the past. > > Got you. Thanks! There are other OSes on the x86 that > provide threads (solaris, windows...). I wonder how they > handle this. Good question. I was hoping Bruce would clarify, but he's bowed out of the dicussion... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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