#ifdef _KERNEL in lwkt_thread.c

Nicolas Thery nthery at gmail.com
Sun May 18 12:29:35 PDT 2008


2008/5/18 Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>:
>    Originally I tested the core mechanics in userland, and had an idea
>    to use it for the userland thread scheduler in a NxM configuration
>    (N kernel threads x M userland threads per kernel thread), using
>    async system calls.
>
>    That never worked out... it was just too complex and implementing async
>    system calls turned out to be basically impossible without rewriting
>    the entire kernel.  So the module is no longer intended to be compiled
>    for userland.

Thanks.  Could we remove it then to simplify the file?





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