From: John Aspinall <jgaspinall@rcn.com>
To: Rick Brown <rick.brown.3@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Threading in linux
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:48:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462EA573.8020509@rcn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7783925d0704240336i49e918dcm4d38e9bbc0310a39@mail.gmail.com>
Rick Brown wrote:
>
> Could you hint upon the kernel features required for NPTL? May be a link?
I know very little about this, but by coincidence (the application
program I work on got a nice bugfix because of this) I can tell you one
kernel difference on x86_64 kernels that support NPTL.
For NPTL on x86_64, the kernel reserves a register for thread-ID. That
register is swapped as part of the context switch the kernel does. In
the older LinuxThreads, thread-ID was established by looking up a stack
address in a table. In the LinuxThreads implementation, thread-ID was
broken whenever a thread ran on the alt-stack.
John Aspinall
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-25 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-24 6:38 Threading in linux Rick Brown
2007-04-24 7:03 ` pradeep singh
2007-04-24 7:17 ` Amol Lad
2007-04-24 8:29 ` Rick Brown
2007-04-24 9:54 ` Erik Mouw
2007-04-24 10:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-24 10:36 ` Rick Brown
2007-04-24 10:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-04-25 0:48 ` John Aspinall [this message]
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