Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 04:51:46 -0500 From: Chris Csanady <cc@137.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rfork patch, please comment Message-ID: <38196E32.BD1F51CD@ameslab.gov> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910281156500.10856-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > > I know I've been a fan of using rfork for native threads, > (and all the support that we need for a linuxthreads is already there > (see the linuxthread PORT to freebsd)). But I was speakin gwith terry the > other day and he managed to convince me that there is an even better way > that we could do this. > > It's really quite elegant. Were you reffering to the use of async call gates, in conjunction with a user space call conversion scheduler? I have read many of Terry's posts regarding this type of thing, and it seems quite brilliant. Honestly, I would be quite disappointed if we went with a threading solution such as linux provides. (Or any of the other typical solutions.) Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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