From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Can Sar <csar@stanford.edu>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Making UML Single Threader
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:43:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051108154310.GA4131@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91A93A3A-FE83-4002-A004-E8FD4AFBAA3C@stanford.edu>
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
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-06 23:23 [uml-devel] Does UML 2.6.14 work under x86-64? Rob Landley
2005-11-07 16:25 ` Jeff Dike
2005-11-07 19:32 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-07 14:38 ` David Lang
2005-11-07 19:44 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-08 0:53 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-07 14:47 ` David Lang
2005-11-07 15:30 ` David Lang
2005-11-08 3:39 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-08 5:13 ` [uml-devel] Making UML Single Threader Can Sar
2005-11-08 7:09 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-08 7:44 ` Can Sar
2005-11-09 0:35 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-09 0:48 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-09 1:17 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-09 1:31 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-09 3:18 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-10 4:18 ` Jeff Dike
2005-11-10 4:58 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-10 6:23 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-11-10 4:07 ` Jeff Dike
2005-11-10 3:55 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-08 15:46 ` Jeff Dike
2005-11-09 0:27 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-14 13:59 ` Nix
2005-11-14 19:37 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-14 20:00 ` Nix
2005-11-14 20:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-11-15 11:39 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-11-16 1:23 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-08 16:13 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-09 0:51 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-08 15:43 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2005-11-08 16:10 ` Blaisorblade
2005-11-08 19:11 ` Can Sar
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