GDB 6.0 and FreeBSD threads
Petri Helenius
pete at he.iki.fi
Mon Mar 29 12:41:48 PST 2004
Niall Douglas wrote:
>Here's a thought - surely on a M:N threading implementation the
>kernel and user side library can automatically optimise which threads
>don't need to be system scope? They could do this by maintaining a
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I would hate to see this happen. The added complexity and
unpredictability would make implementations harder because you would
have to account for an optimizer which tries to think what´s best for
the crappy application/programmer who does not know what he wants.
>sleep & i/o history for each thread, noting when which threads run
>concurrently, which i/o dependencies exist between threads and from
>that dynamically rescope the thread plus perform dynamic priority
>boosting to minimise sleeps. Indeed, if the kernel scheduler felt it
>was being overtaxed, more threads could be moved in-process.
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Why not just run all threads SCOPE_PROCESS? Then the system will do that
for you.
>To me there is little point investing in all the complexity of a M:N
>implementation if you don't implement such optimisation features -
>otherwise the substantial amounts of extra code cause things to run
>slower due to sheer binary size. Of course this subtly breaks POSIX
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The great advantage of process scope threads is the fact that you can
hand over a mutex without going trough a process switch.
Pete
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