From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Eric Smith" <eric@brouhaha.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any lightweight way for one thread to force another thread to suspend execution?
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:04:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877iciyjcs.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40921.64.62.206.10.1214006079.squirrel@ruckus.brouhaha.com> (Eric Smith's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:54:39 -0700 (PDT)")
"Eric Smith" <eric@brouhaha.com> writes:
>
> What I've thought about so far (but haven't tested) for thread A
> to suspend thread B is to use a signal and two pthread conditions:
Any such mechanism will need a syscall, and it's unlikely that
any syscall will get much cheaper than a kill(SIGSTOP)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-21 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-20 23:54 Any lightweight way for one thread to force another thread to suspend execution? Eric Smith
2008-06-21 14:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-06-22 1:55 ` Eric Smith
2008-06-22 6:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-06-22 9:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-23 21:08 ` Eric Smith
2008-06-24 7:59 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-21 16:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-06-22 2:02 ` Eric Smith
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