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SubjectRe: thousands of threads & kernel continuations
On Apr 27,  3:36pm, Alan Cox wrote:
Subject: Re: thousands of threads & kernel continuations
>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

You are being unfair. There is a protection check, so they
were rediscovering system calls not function calls.




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