libkse / libthr bugs?

[Julian Elischer]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Mike Makonnen wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:36:24 -0700
> Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:32:02AM -0700, Alex Boisvert wrote:
> > > 
> > > I written a small test case (see source below), which I've run against 
> > > both libkse and libthr.  I'm using -CURRENT as of last Tuesday and 
> > > running on a Dual Athlon MP 1.2 GHz (Tyan Thunder K7 motherboard).
> 
> On i386 libthr limits an application to 128 _concurrent_ threads. So, you
> should check the return value from pthread_create() for EAGAIN, in which case
> you should retry again.
> 
> > On ia64 I get the following with libthr (libkse is not completely
> > ported yet):
> > 
> > % ./foo2 1000
> > [very long list of random "bar #"
> >  :
> > bar 999
> > bar 226
> > bar 244
> > Thread (_thread_initial:0) already on mutexq
> > Fatal error 'Illegal call from signal handler' at line 1347 in file
> > /nfs/freebsd/5.x/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_mutex.c (errno = 0)
> 
> Great! I've been waiting for this message to appear for some time. Do you have a
> backtrace by any chance? If not, that's Ok, even without it the program is
> simple enough that I know where to start looking.
> 
> > Note that I don't have any of David's signal code patches applied.
> 
> Any unbreaking of signals in the kernel would definitely help libthr.

David's changes are mostly kse related.


> 
> Cheers.
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