From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0M0V4b19013 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:31:04 -0800 Received: from sgi.com (sgi-too.SGI.COM [204.94.211.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0M0UxP19010; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:30:59 -0800 Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.5] (may be forged)) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id PAA04615; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:29:44 -0800 (PST) mail_from (drepper@redhat.com) Received: from myware.mynet (fiendish.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.231.146]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA16882; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from drepper@localhost) by myware.mynet (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0LNMUQ24648; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:22:30 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: myware.mynet: drepper set sender to drepper@redhat.com using -f To: Ralf Baechle Cc: "Kevin D. Kissell" , "H . J . Lu" , GNU libc hacker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: thread-ready ABIs References: <20020118101908.C23887@lucon.org> <01b801c1a081$3f6518e0$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <20020119162415.B31028@dea.linux-mips.net> Reply-To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper) X-fingerprint: BE 3B 21 04 BC 77 AC F0 61 92 E4 CB AC DD B9 5A X-fingerprint: e6:49:07:36:9a:0d:b7:ba:b5:e9:06:f3:e7:e7:08:4a From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 21 Jan 2002 15:22:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020119162415.B31028@dea.linux-mips.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ralf Baechle writes: > Changing the kernel for the small number of threaded applications that > exists and taking a performance impact for the kernel itself and anything > that's using threads is an exquisite example for a bad tradeoff. Well, it seems you haven't read what I wrote. It's not about a small number of threaded applications anymore. The thread register will be part of the ABI and all applications, threaded or not, will use it. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------