Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:19:26 -0700 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: Slow pthread_create() under high load |
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Nicholas Vinen writes: > > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > If you want to see this changes get the kernel changes in place. > > > There are various patches floating around which combined will allow a > > > correct and fast implementation. But they were not added. > > > > The problem he is seeing however appears unrelated to the fact posix > > threads is a braindamaged pile of crap. Its because the scheduler penalises > > across forks as part of its fairness approach. Ingo showed that was in > > fact wrong and posted some algorithm changes for 2.3.9x > > Alan, if POSIX threads are a "braindamaged pile of crap" (not arguing > but I do use threads quite heavily) what would you rather us use as > threads in Linux? Or are you not happy with any current implementation? > The described technique does seem rather hackish. I'm interested in > finding out a better way of doing something akin to threads. Is this > planned in a future kernel?
Just use clone(2) directly. That's what I do.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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