Messages in this thread | | | From | mroth@calpoly ... | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:37:01 -0800 | Subject | Re: Spawning kernel threads from other kernel threads(?) |
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>>and BTW what is an "?entity?" ?
Oops. Excuse my ambiguity. When I said "entity" I was describing the design in a very general form. Let me phrase it like this; my software in theory looks like:
- a manager "entity" is responsible for destroying and creating "worker" threads. - the worker threads then perform a specific tasks.
That's theory though. The implementation actually looks like:
A linux kernel thread has the responsibility of creating and killing threads (thus termed "manager"). The worker threads (also kernel threads) perform specific tasks.
>>2.4.3 is awfully stale for starters -
Yup. This is not by choice :-) The hardware/OS is pretty much fixed at this point.
Would spawning a kernel thread from a kernel thread work with a recent kernel?
>>cu
>>jjs
> Question: > Can you spawn a kernel thread from another kernel thread? I want to > have one manager ?entity? which will dynamically create kernel threads as > needed. Right now, when I try to spawn another thread from the manager ?entity? > [as of today, still a kernel thread] it will crash. Is this legal? If not, what > is the alternative? > > kernel_thread() > Kernel Version 2.4.3
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