lkwt in DragonFly
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Feb 10 11:39:45 PST 2004
:The paper has a lot of bogos or not applicable claims and assumptions
:in it. IMHO it is very relevent for us.
:
:There is one good reason why 1:1 would be useful: thread safety. There
:are quite a few library functions which are not thread safe and will
:never be. Those could use a static storage with is local to the current
:process using the per-thread VM spaces.
:
:Joerg
That's not quite the definition of 1:1. What 1:1 means is basically
an rfork() style model... that is, distinct kernel scheduled entities
but using a shared address space. So you do not get thread safety that
way.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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