From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EZUnr-0008Ih-V2 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:50:27 -0800 Received: from lakshmi.addtoit.com ([198.99.130.6] helo=lakshmi.solana.com) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1EZUnp-0001ww-O0 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 08 Nov 2005 06:50:28 -0800 From: Jeff Dike Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Making UML Single Threader Message-ID: <20051108154310.GA4131@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: <200511061723.32848.rob@landley.net> <91A93A3A-FE83-4002-A004-E8FD4AFBAA3C@stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <91A93A3A-FE83-4002-A004-E8FD4AFBAA3C@stanford.edu> Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:43:10 -0500 To: Can Sar Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:13:19PM -0800, Can Sar wrote: > Do the other threads (particularly the user thread) ever > do something else that would be important? The user thread doesn't. The IO thread does, if you wish to do IO. And you can easily dispense with the sigio emulation thread. > Furthermore is the actual kernel process multi threaded? It does what amounts to user-level threads - i.e. there are multiple execution contexts in it, implemented with setjmp/longjmp, but that's not visible from the outside. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel