Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 11:08:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Kernel thread system nomenclature. Message-ID: <3B49F325.E2C6FEC8@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.010706152734.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > >#3 struct upctx (upcall-context), virtcpu, thrdslot (thread slot) > >#4 struct lwp (decided) > > > > usually the 'lwp' will be passed around so diffs to NetBSD will be > > minimalised. > > One thing to note is that as Vahalia (sp?) points out, lwp > on SVR4 and Solaris is actually #3 (a virtual CPU) where as > lwp on SunOS is a user-thread. Unfortunately, I think by > using overloaded terms you are going to confuse people who > come into the project from different backgrounds. I would > try and stay with non-ambiguous names if possible. Virtual CPUs are a very bad idea. The main reason SVR4 and Solaris threading didn't scale well from day one is the "virtual CPU" approach. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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