Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: thousands of threads & kernel continuations | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:36:34 +0100 (BST) |
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> The Utah Mach project went further and observed that clients can lend > their threads to the servers which process their RPC calls. Not only do > you not have to keep all those kernel stacks around, but servers don't > even need to create service threads in the first place, because their > clients will lend them ones when the time comes. Furthermore, the latency
It was about this point why I finally decided the utah mach people had gone totally off their trolley (Apart from the fact many of the papers are great where code isnt). Making a call where you block and lend the person your stack is known in normal programming as
a function call
Alan
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