DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2008-05
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Re: #ifdef _KERNEL in lwkt_thread.c
2008/5/18 Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>:
> Originally I tested the core mechanics in userland, and had an idea
> to use it for the userland thread scheduler in a NxM configuration
> (N kernel threads x M userland threads per kernel thread), using
> async system calls.
>
> That never worked out... it was just too complex and implementing async
> system calls turned out to be basically impossible without rewriting
> the entire kernel. So the module is no longer intended to be compiled
> for userland.
Thanks. Could we remove it then to simplify the file?
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