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Re: [Dri-devel] OpenGL and the LinuxThreads pthread_descr structure
- From: James Antill <james at and dot org>
- To: idr at us dot ibm dot com
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, "DRI developer's list" <dri-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: 17 May 2002 12:31:45 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] OpenGL and the LinuxThreads pthread_descr structure
- References: <3CE4359C.2030209@acm.org><20020517090049.B17940@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>
Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Please forgive my lack of understanding of the relevent issues. It seems to
> me that this issue (or a closely related issue) has been brought up in the
> past, and was brutally slain by Linus. Admittedly, a lot has changed in the
> Linux world in 2+ years, but could someone explain how this proposal relates
> to this earlier request:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu/1999-month-12/msg02616.html
This is talking about tread private storage, where you have multiple
threads that "share" memory apart from a special bit that can only be
accessed from each thread (so then it isn't really threads it's
processes with massive amounts of shared memory).
The current discussion is about thread local memory, Ie. part of the
overall shared memory that is (excluding bugs) only accessed from the
current thread (but is in the memory space of all threads).
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