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Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.
- From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol at 2ka dot mipt dot ru>
- To: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at labri dot fr>, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:53:16 +0300
- Subject: Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.
- References: <20070129145227.GA10524@2ka.mipt.ru> <40f323d00701290747y68c8e27ege824694bfa378f58@mail.gmail.com> <20070130011817.GI3541@interface.residence.ens-lyon.fr>
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:18:17AM +0100, Samuel Thibault (samuel.thibault@labri.fr) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Evgenity, le Mon 29 Jan 2007 16:47:36 +0100, a Ãcrit :
> > Userspace M-on-N threading model is based on the idea, that when signal
> > is delivered, kernel saves all information related to previous context
> > in stack, so it is possible to find it and replace.
>
> You may want to have a look at some existing implementations:
I saw most of them.
As far as I recall, only PTL (is not shown here) has preemptible
scheduler. NTL has it too, but is based on different approach.
> - Good old `FSU Pthreads' http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/pthreads/
> - fully POSIX-compliant `GnuPth' http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
> - server-targetted `Capriccio'
> www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jcondit/capriccio-sosp-2003.pdf
> - efficient `ELiTE/Erlangen'
> http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Projects/FORTWIHR/ELiTE/
> - and our portable, flexible, efficient `Marcel'
> http://runtime.futurs.inria.fr/marcel/
>
> Samuel
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Evgeniy Polyakov