Re: Slow pthread_create() under high load

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 18:20:15 EST


Christopher Smith writes:
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> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Christopher Smith writes:
> > > so _POSIX_THREADS_PER_THREAD_SIGNALS_1 is effectively true?
> In retrospect this one is obviously true.
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> > > Is there some way to do SIGEV_THREAD?
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> > It's been some years since I read the spec. What do these mean, again?
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> Sorry, I should have been more clear. SIGEV_THREAD is allows a
> signal handler to execute in it's own thread. This has several
> advantages in certain types of situations.

This should be doable in user-space. We don't need/want kernel support
for this.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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