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DateTue, 27 Feb 2007 09:27:57 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: threadlets as 'naive pool of threads', epoll, some measurements
* Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:

> > > Enough, you say micro-thread design is superior - ok, that is your 
> > > point.
> > 
> > note that threadlets are not 'micro-threads'. A threadlet is more of 
> > an 'optional thread' (as i mentioned it earlier): whenever it does 
> > anything that makes it distinct from a plain function call, it's 
> > converted into a separate thread by the kernel. Otherwise it behaves 
> > like a plain function call and returns.
> 
> I know.
> But it is rare case for the most situations, when things do not block, 
> so I called it micro-thread, since it spawns a new thread (get from 
> preallocated pool) for parallel processing.

ugh. Because 'it spawns a new thread from a preallocated pool' you are 
arbitrarily renaming threadlets to 'micro-threads'?? The kernel could be 
using a transparent thread pool for ordinary pthread recycling itself 
(and will possibly do so in the future) - that does not make them a 
micro-thread one iota. So please stop calling them micro-threads, 
threadlets are a distinctly separate concept ...

( And i guess you should know it perfectly well from my past mails in
  this thread that i dont like micro-thread concepts at all, so are you
  perhaps calling threadlets 'micro-threads' intentionally, just to 
  force a predictably negative reaction from me? Maybe i should start 
  renaming your code too and refer to kevents as 'kpoll'? That too makes
  absolutely zero sense. This is getting really silly. )

	Ingo
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