Re: [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 07:07:45 EST


Hi Ingo,

I'm just being anal and disagreeing with Ulrich over a technical
point, i.e. that the _only_ cost is a few syscalls, nothing
fundamental here :)

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If all this userspace cost can be dealt with by doing some simple
> things in kernel-space, why not do it?

Agreed - separate child/parent tid pointers is fine.

Btw, what do you think of the CLONE_CHILD_BLOCKSIGS flag idea?

-- Jamie
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