Re: lkwt in DragonFly

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:51:49PM +0100, Sten Spans wrote:
> idem for linux, see: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf
> the short summary is that fixing your kernel to work nicely with 1:1
> is easier then getting the hairy details of n:m properly working.

The paper has a lot of bogos or not applicable claims and assumptions
in it. IMHO it is very relevent for us.

There is one good reason why 1:1 would be useful: thread safety. There
are quite a few library functions which are not thread safe and will
never be. Those could use a static storage with is local to the current
process using the per-thread VM spaces.

Joerg

> I'd like to know why for dragonfly n:m would be better.
> 
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> Sten Spans
> 
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