Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:21:01 +0400 (MSD) | From | Khimenko Victor <> | Subject | Re: kernel thread support - LWP's |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Why can't you do that by clone()ing to a trampoline that sends SIGSTOP > > > to itself ? > > > > The whole idea is to avoid context switches after process creation (it's not > > even related to LWP's). I can not understood how clone()ing to a trampoline > > will help to do this. > > my_clone_start(struct thread_context_thingy *p) > { > kill(getpid(),SIGSTP); > return p->run(p->args); > } > 2 context switches != 0 context switches :-(( When you want to create 10000 inactive threads performace loss will be significant :-/
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